Tie up your hair and ditch the blonde look: academic hits back over lust and the lecture

AN AWARD-WINNING academic has hit back after a writer told how he lusted after her so much it prompted him to visit a sex worker.

- Robert Dex

Professor Lea Ypi, a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, was responding to a piece published in The Spectator by Lloyd Evans. Writing in the magazine, Mr Evans described a trip to Darwin College — which he incorrectly called Downing College — at the University of Cambridge, to attend a lecture from Professor Ypi.

Mr Evans said he was distracted throughout the talk on Kant and revolutions by the “beautiful historian’s” appearance. He wrote: “Her blonde hair spil l ing over her shoulders absorbed far more of my attention than her political reflections.”