“Labour party shadow education minister and Engels biographer Tristram Hunt crossed a picket line of striking university lecturers at Queen Mary University on 10 February to lecture to students on Marx and Engels. The strikers, members of the UCU union, were taking part in a two-hour “lightning” strike as part of an extended campaign of industrial action against real pay cuts – the government’s 1% public sector pay, which is well below the rise in the cost of living. The Morning Star quoted a striker as saying the shadow minister looked “shamefaced” as he scabbed on crossed their picket line.”

Good for him.