Royal Holloway Lecturer Sparks Backlash from ‘Get Surrey’
A Royal Holloway professor has provoked a response from a local paper after he referred to Egham as “a very boring place to live”.
Get Surrey, who cover local news and events pertaining to the county, published a defensive article entitled “8 Reasons Egham is actually Pretty Great”. The article is justified as a response to a councillor's derogatory comments on the small Surrey town in which the university is officially based. The accused councillor, of the Labour party, happens to be Jason Brock, who also teaches modern history and the history of political thought at Royal Holloway. He was discussing the move of 250 Procter and Gamble employees from Egham to Whitley, a nearby town just south of Reading.
Brock said of Egham: "I oddly enough work in Egham and have lived in Egham for s...