UCL apologises for media director’s campus meeting rant

Charles Hymas said meeting over new campus was ‘more akin to a Roman amphitheatre where any slave felt to be worshipping the God Mammon was going to be bayed down’

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March 8, 2018

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Thumbs down: Charles Hymas compared a meeting to a ‘Roman amphitheatre’

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Print headline: Meeting became ‘frenzy of hatred’

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