sentences:  Selbourne has been involved in a number of controversies.They have included the events which surrounded the publication of an article by him in The Times in 1986 on corruption in the Labour politics of Liverpool.Published during the 'Wapping dispute', in which members of the print unions were at loggerheads with the newspaper, Selbourne was accused by both students and colleagues at Ruskin of having betrayed union interests by publishing the article at that point; his lectures were picketed by print union members and militant students, and he was prevented from teaching.