This Boris Johnson column provoked quite a brouhaha -- or perhaps I should say βατραχομυομαχία -- on a classicists' mailing list I read. I wrote a blog post about it:
http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2010/03/strangle_the_last_prof_with_th.html
or http://tinyurl.com/strangleprof
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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com