Brexit

[Graham Breeze]

On the other hand, universities (the sector where I work) have benefited hugely from Freedom of Movement and from financial input from the EU; apparently there do exist academics who voted Leave, but I haven't actually met any.

Illustrating that a high IQ correlates to an ability to reach a sensible referendum judgment?

Anyway anecdote alert! My youngest brother and wife (both Cambridge PhDs) have worked at the University of Pamplona for 30 years and their four older children all have first degrees from that University. The four are "Spanish" having been born there but all four have spent time in England to enhance their post-first degree education achieving a Cambridge PhD (he now works in Seattle), a UCL Masters (she now works in the UK Treasury) & etc. Amongst the rancour, ignorance,...consuming Brexit it is a comfort to me that able young people from Spain have been (clearly at some personal cost and inconvenience) welcomed by fine English Universities to complete their education.

But then, I voted remain.