To this day, I still remember the colour of the cream envelope, embossed with the insignia of Cambridge University – and how I felt opening the letter that, I knew then, would determine my future. Once a renowned seat of learning, Cambridge is in real danger of becoming a citadel of fashionable groupthink. He later stressed he was being 'sarcastic' – but that was completely lost on St Louis, who sensed a golden opportunity for global media attention. But his destroyer, Connie St Louis, was also hit by the fallout from the row she generated. Meanwhile Mrs St Louis claimed she had an 'upper second' BSc (Hons) in applied biology – although it was not clear where this was awarded.