Ian Payne (Oxford Mail, March 5) should know that you don't need to be an "Oxonian or aware of the political set-up in the city" to understand that for Ruskin College to name a new library after Lord Callaghan is adding insult to injury.
He did make an infamous speech at Ruskin, supposedly setting an agenda shoe-horning students to the needs of the economy.
He may have "believed in education for all", but he certainly helped make it less accessible for all.
This is what the current principal is threatening to do by attempting to force through the sale of the historic Walton Street site.
In some strange parallel world, it may be possible to see Lord Callaghan as "the last of the truest Labour stalwarts", but he only paved the way for Margaret Thatcher, allowing Neil Kinnock to kill the Labour Party.
No college should be run the way Ruskin is, let alone a trade union one.
We may be living in a pre-fascist state, but that's no excuse for letting Ruskin be run into the ground.
Yes, a new library would be welcome, but better student accommodation is essential and should come first.
We will fight to keep Ruskin in the heart of Oxford.
ANDY GIBBONS Weyland Road Headington Oxford
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