University as Lobbyist

Those who, like RRR, have an interest in the Caledonian MacBrayne tendering issue should have a look at this blog, section headed "The EC-subsidised private lobbyists".

Having read the "academic" report in question, RRR would have gone much further in his condemnation of the so-called Professor who, in exchange for the 40-pieces-of-silver, evidently was happy to sell to private shipping concerns the last remaining vestige of any intellectual respectability he may once have commanded. As far as RRR is concerned, those undertaking such crass political lobbying from within a Scottish University are guilty bringing the academic profession as a whole into disrepute and do not deserve the title of "academic" far less that of professor.