“Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ‘never gave his tutors any cause for concern, and was a well-mannered, quietly spoken, polite and able young man’, explained University College London, as it busily seemed to wash its hands of any responsibility for fostering a suicide bomber who attempted to down a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day. While of course, said Provost Malcolm Grant, the authorities would be reflecting very carefully, students were admitted on merit and there could be no vetting ‘of their political, racial or religious background or beliefs’ …” (more)
[Ruth Dudley Edwards, Daily Telegraph, 2 December]