[stan_rogers]

It wasn't necessarily the Scunthorpe problem.

“British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the important things of life, and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians. Things like the opera, Radio Three, the countryside, the law, the universities… both of them.” - Sir Humphrey Appleby

[natcombs]

For someone who is not British, wouldyou mind explaining who/what the both are?

[stan_rogers]

Oxford and Cambridge. (At a stretch, one might also include St. Andrews and Trinity.)