right that the Lib Dems would have failed the country if they hadn't gone into full coalition. And he is right that Labour had neither the numbers nor the spirit to be coalition partners. He is also right that the tuition fees programme is very generous. "Have twenty-seven grand of tuition and only pay for it at severnty quid a month when (and if) your salary reached thirty grand" is an amazingly good deal for the young. So generous that future Governments may well rue being stuck with its results. (And don't come that nonsense about my generation having had free tuition----there were only university places for 5% of my generation and most of us got our Higher Education at 'The Tech', where we or our employers paid the tuition fees up front.) Most popular on the Guardian Today in pictures After advising tourists against travel to the cities of Jammu and Srinagar for nearly 20 years, the Foreign Office has lifted its guidelines after a fall in violence. So, Dal Lake and part of the Valley of Kashmir, one of India's most beautiful regions, are once again open to visitors