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For goodness’ sake, what a load of facetious humbug. Journalism isn’t about connecting agitprop idealism with a handful of throwaway aphorisms (Eat, Pray, Shop... can you go much cheaper?). The stream of consciousness set out illogically in this opinion reaches no worthy conclusion, nor does it adequately signpost the direction of ‘thought’ being assembled during the process of typing.

Rather than counting the words towards the magical threshold for publication, the author would do well to connect her arguments and present them in a way which communications some modicum of understanding not only of the depth of the subject, but also the mores of her target readership.

Whilst it is very trendy to curry favour with what the author evidently perceives to be the body politic of student underdogs, does this demonstrate any understanding of the perpetrators of the protest and the origins of the crisis? The tent city at St Paul’s is not populated by the direct victims of the crisis and the neighbouring occupants in the City are not the sole bearers of responsibility for an impending disaster which will hit hardest neither the very rich nor the very poor, but the significant majority who have struggled to get themselves onto the lower rungs of the ladder by overstretching their creditworthiness.

Please, keep it credible.