course in 'Contemporary Urbanism' as a sensible preventative measure -- much as we arrested domiciled Nazis and pro--Molotov-Ribbentrop pact commies in 1939. And much as then, we could intern them on the Isle of Wight, with their benighted lecturers, the facile Howard Kirks of this century. You can imagine the sort of glib, infantile, left-wing drivel that gets rammed into thick, impressionable middle-class Australian students studying Contemporary Urbanism, can't you? I will bet any money that the people behind the course were also behind that hilarious 'study' the LSE produced in conjunction with, natch, the Guardian about last summer's riots. This consisted of asking rioters why they rioted and taking the answers at face value in a dynamic new sociological approach called Utter Naivety. Oddly enough, none of the rioters said: 'We rioted because we're greedy, feral, badly brought-up, fairly stupid and criminally inclined.' The riots were, instead, an entirely appropriate response to social and political aspects of cities, especially when our western-centric views of these places are challenged. It goes without saying, of course, that the globe-trotting Trenton hails from a background more moneyed and gilded than that which had been the lot of most of the Oxbridge rowers, I would guess. He had attended one of Australia's top fee-paying schools, the Sydney Church of England Grammar -- which will have set his parents back something like 16,000 per year. Perhaps this accounts for his confusing the terms elitism and privilege, a mistake made by a good many of