When it comes to sycophantic self-congratulation the recent Academy Awards have nothing on the UCLU Summer Arts Ball. Apparently unsatisfied with their endless curtain calls, Drama Society have turned to UCLU’s end of year awards to massage their already engorged egos. The luvvies nominated a whopping 70 of their members for Arts Colours, Commendations and Centenaries, otherwise known as the UCLU Triple Threat. And though Leo has finally claimed his Oscar, it looks like 29 members of Drama will go home empty handed. Presumably the panel considering the nominations lost the will to live.
History repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce, and then, if the UCLU Labour Soc AGM agenda is to be believed, as surrealist performance art. The confusing presence of geriatric Trot Ben Towse – a former Postgrad Officer first mentioned in these pages in 2011 – among candidates for the Corbynistas’ 2016/2017 committee had Soc Bitch pining for bygone days. No news yet on a possible Disraeli candidacy for Tory Soc president, though.