The University gets £800k for a study on author Robert Louis Stevenson

'Bureaucrats who insist on funding this nonsense should be told to walk the plank', said Joanna Marchong. 'Benevolent bureaucrats should be 'walked the plank' says Joanna. Study was commissioned by British government to study Stevenson's work on Treasure Island.

University of Edinburgh to study the way the Victorian author treats indigenous populations in the Pacific Islands. Public quango is paying more than £800,000 to researchers at the university to study Stevenson's treatment of indigenous people in Pacific islands. The Victorian author is being hailed as a modernising hero of the day.