Labour’s former health secretary, Alan Milburn, has taken plenty of flak for agreeing to work for the coalition as its adviser on social mobility . As his latest findings on access to higher education are released , it’s hard not to overlook the fact that he’s working for the people who abolished the education maintenance allowance (“a very bad mistake” in his view) , who believe that there are too many people at university anyway , and whose general mode is to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted . (source “The Guardian”)