When Newcastle United announced plans to change the name of its historic and well-loved St James’ Park stadium to raise sponsorship money, it unleashed a torrent of incandescent rage from fans.
Now the renaming of another august institution has provoked a wave of resentment from its supporters. Academics at the University of Cambridge are furious that officials are offering to alter the library’s title in exchange for cash.
“At this rate, one might set off for the University Library one morning to find it turned into a branch of Tesco,” Gill Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history, said.
Professor Evans continued: “What is there to stop someone buying the library? The problem is that there could be a trade-off between the scale