Why are all the heads, the Principals and Presidents of Oxford and Cambridge Universities avowed leftists?

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Alan Rusbridger Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Former Editor of the most Left-leaning Guardian for 20 years, during which time the newspaper lost up to £200 million. Awarded prestigious Visiting Fellowships to celebrities including Harry Potter star Emma Watson, Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant. (well done you)

Jackie Ashley, 63

President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

Her many media jobs included Guardian columnist and political editor of the New Statesman. Daughter of a Labour peer. Has said that a Cambridge college is the best place from which to campaign for equality, as ‘graduates from Oxbridge still dominate in the professions and in government’.

John Eatwell, 72

President of Queens College, Cambridge

An economic adviser to Neil Kinnock before entering the Lords. An advocate of Britain joining the euro at the time of the Maastricht Treaty, he had two stints on Labour’s front bench as party spokesman on Treasury affairs. Helped found a think-tank dedicated to ‘progressive politics’.

the list goes on and on and on