- “Cambridge academics demand inquiry into Arday fiasco” – Cambridge academics are calling for a formal inquiry after the university’s handling of the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal provoked widespread anger on campus, reports the Telegraph.
- “Arday’s students think Cambridge failed them. Now they consider legal action” – Graduates who received lower marks than expected under the ‘inadequate’ supervision of Professor Arday are now considering legal action against Cambridge, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge to review its hiring process after Arday fiasco” – Cambridge University has confirmed that its investigation into Arday will feed into a broader review of how senior academic roles are filled, notes the Telegraph.
- “Academics turn on Cambridge for appointing Jason Arday” – Woke Cambridge academics are demanding an inquiry into how the university appointed Professor Arday, concerned that the spotlight may not turn on them, reports the Mail.
- “Jason Arday claimed he had locked-in syndrome and testicular cancer” – A 2024 book proposal by the disgraced Cambridge professor included dramatic personal anecdotes about locked-in syndrome, testicular cancer and a near-fatal car accident that did not appear in the final manuscript, says Eleanor Harding in the Mail.
- “The great and unfortunate things Jason Arday’s memoir forgot to mention” – The book proposal that secured Professor Arday his Cambridge platform was built on harrowing personal claims – none of which made it into the final text, notes the Times.
- “The Cambridge diversity scramble that led to Arday fiasco” – Cambridge University stands accused of “going through the motions” when it appointed its youngest-ever professor in a diversity-driven hiring process that is now under intense scrutiny, reports the Telegraph.
- “Arday failed to mention ‘months-long coma’ in autobiography” – Arday’s autobiography makes no mention of a supposed months-long coma he claimed to have endured, even as it details other extraordinary personal claims including a prophesied future and a car crash, says the Telegraph.
- “James O’Brien: I feel like a mug for defending Arday” – LBC presenter James O’Brien says he feels “like a mug” after publicly defending Arday against plagiarism accusations, though he insists he bears no personal guilt for doing so, notes the Telegraph.
- “Scandal exposes how many institutions have been captured by woke dogma” – In the Mail, Guy Adams argues that the Arday affair exposes how deeply woke dogma has captured Britain’s institutions.
- “The not-so talented Mr Arday” – In Spiked, Tom Slater asks why it took so long for Britain’s Black Lives Matter professor to be exposed.
- “Arday’s army” – In the Critic, Ben Sixsmith says that the disgraced Cambridge professor must be a deeply troubled individual – but that the real scandal lies with those who enabled and championed him.
- “Impoverished sociology” – Arday’s resignation from Cambridge over plagiarism and fantastical biographical claims closes only one phase of an extraordinary controversy, says the Critic.
- “Tories to end council housing for foreigners” – The Conservative Party is pledging to make foreign nationals ineligible for social housing, claiming the move could free up nearly 230,000 homes for British families, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Left is misguided in opposing Kemi’s ban on council housing for foreigners” – With hundreds of thousands of Britons languishing on social housing waiting lists, the Left’s opposition to the Tories’ proposed restrictions is badly misdirected, according to a Telegraph editorial.
- “Burnham considers U-turn on releasing PC Harper’s killers” – Officials had believed a targeted exemption for the two convicted men would be legally impossible, but the Government is now reconsidering its position, reports the Telegraph.
- “PC Harper detective ‘appalled’ by killers’ early release” – The detective who led the investigation into PC Harper’s death has spoken out after Bowers and Cole were confirmed for early release as soon as October, says the Telegraph.
- “Burnham’s water nationalisation ‘risks costing taxpayers £140 billion’” – Andy Burnham has been warned that his plans to nationalise Britain’s water sector would saddle taxpayers with a £140 billion bill, writes the Telegraph.
- “Ed Miliband’s attempts to ‘lead Brexit negotiations’ rebuffed” – Questions over Ed Miliband’s influence on EU relations have intensified after Andy Burnham sacked Brexit minister Nick Thomas-Symonds, who previously held responsibility for the negotiations, notes the Times.
- “Streeting must be investigated over ‘crypto king’ donation, says Reform” – Reform is demanding an investigation into donations Wes Streeting received from a think tank linked to one of the world’s most notorious fraudsters, claims the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage’s Reform hit high – but must soon deal with Lowe” – Reform is back at the top of the polls as Farage prepares for the Clacton by-election, reports the Times.
- “Sadiq Khan: my hard work as mayor will bring me Brownie…” – Khan tells the Telegraph he is “living proof of the London promise” as he rebukes Tory rhetoric on Islam and defends his record on crime, says the Telegraph.
- “Exc: judges organise internal seminars on “replacing whiteness”” – Judges and legal advisers in Britain’s Northern Circuit were instructed to attend seminars on “replacing whiteness”, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “AI creates never-before-seen virus” – A breakthrough in AI-generated virus has prompted fears that the technology could be harnessed to create deadly bioweapons, notes the Telegraph.
- “The real reason the social contract is broken” – With almost two-thirds of Britons believing the social contract is broken and a third calling for communist revolution, Ed West in the Spectator argues that the deeper cause lies in the erosion of shared national identity.
- “Four in 10 jobless young people have special needs…” – Official research showing that four in 10 teenagers facing long-term unemployment have a diagnosis for conditions such as ADHD or autism raises urgent questions about how the state supports young people into work, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump says ‘way too early’ to endorse Vance for president” – Donald Trump has declined to back JD Vance for 2028, as speculation mounts that a Trump endorsement could effectively clear the field given Marco Rubio’s pledge not to run against Vance, says Stephen M. Lepore in the Mail.
- “North Sea shutdown to cost Treasury billions in tax relief” – The latest estimates suggest that rebates and foregone tax revenues from the North Sea’s decline could cost the Treasury around £13 billion between now and 2035, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Used car giant caught selling EVs that could burst into flames” – An investigation identified 125 Ford Kuga cars and two Volvo EX30s listed for sale by a major used-car retailer despite the models being subject to safety recalls over fire risks, notes the Telegraph.
- “Full D.C. Circuit reinstates Biden’s $20 billion green climate slush fund” – The full D.C. Circuit has revived billions in Biden-era climate grants that Trump’s EPA sought to claw back and Congress later repealed, writes Thomas Richard in Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Labour looks to row back on Net Zero targets” – Electric car sales rules may be watered down and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is set to prioritise lower bills over “clean power”, reports the Times.
- “British tennis bans transgender women from all competitive matches” – The Lawn Tennis Association has extended its ban on transgender women to cover all competitive female matches, reports the Telegraph.
- “Progressives no longer care about women” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill argues that the dignity-trouncing of women, dressed up as activism, is being driven overwhelmingly by silver-spoon leftists who have abandoned the sex they once claimed to champion.
- “Archbishop Sarah Mullally is making the same error as Justin Welby on slavery reparations” – In the Telegraph, Charles Wilde argues that Archbishop Mullally is repeating her predecessor’s mistakes on slavery reparations.
- “Burnham ordered to be less ‘blokeish’ on social media” – Social media experts in No 10 have urged the new Prime Minister to tone down his laddish football and pub references in an effort to appeal to a wider audience, reports the Mail.
- “Greta Thunberg wears balaclava to Kneecap and Bob Vylan gig” – The Swedish climate activist, 23, was quickly identified by fellow fans despite her disguise at the Belfast gig, says the Telegraph.
- “90-second power failure triggers two days of rail chaos” – A transformer fault caused a 90-second power outage affecting around 5,000 homes in parts of Manchester, with the knock-on disruption to rail services lasting two days, notes the Telegraph. Welcome to the future.
- “Widdecombe police investigating attempted burglary from last year” – Police investigating Widdecombe’s murder are investigating an attempted burglary of a property that belongs to Nigel Farage that occurred last year, reports the Telegraph.
- “No, Westminster isn’t banning ‘vertical drinking’” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that while he will fight the nanny state on many fronts, Westminster’s stance on vertical drinking is not the hill to die on.
- “Driver is told insurance will be voided unless he removes stickers” – GoSkippy Insurance told Simeon Chandra, 35, from Birmingham, that his insurance policy would be voided because he ahd Christian stickers on his vehicle – including one reading “Jesus Loves You” – according to the Mail.
- “Flags along Weston-super-Mare seafront removed for second time” – Flags installed without permission along Weston-super-Mare’s seafront have been taken down for a second time, says Charlie Watts in the Weston Mercury.
- “The invention of Zack Polanski” – The question of why Green Party leader Zack Polanski named himself after a fictional mini-Messiah is examined by Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “The hypocrisy of Dawn French” – In the Spectator, Julie Burchill argues that Dawn French’s social media videos are nothing more than a passionate expression of met lib herd opinion.
- “The real Rod Liddle: Michael Gove, Toby Young and Freddy Gray on what it was like to know him” – Michael Gove, Freddy Gray, Lara Prendergast and I share our personal memories of Rod Liddle in the Spectator’s Edition.
- “How to start a dissident academic movement” – On his Substack, David McGrogan sets out a practical case for how academics who dissent from mainstream orthodoxies might organise and build a movement.
- “Chatty Patty” – A primary school friend of Jason Arday’s says he was far from non-verbal at the time. In fact, he was impossible to shut up!
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“Burnham’s water nationalisation ‘risks costing taxpayers £140 billion’”
What would people rather have: our water supplies owned by FOREIGN COMPANIES operating solely to profit their shareholders, or our water supplies owned by THE BRITISH TAXPAYERS?
Personally, I don’t care how much it costs to re-nationalise England’s water supply, because Scotland & Wales already have a nationalised water supply like EVERY OTHER NORMAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Privatisation of basic human survival requirements like water was a stupid idea in the first place.
Here’s who owns Britain’s water supply now:
Failures of privatisation | We Own It
Pennon Group Plc: Shareholders, Shareholding Structure – MarketScreener
If you scroll down that page, you will see a pie-diagram showing exactly how much of the Pennon Group is owned by which country. Notice the “CH 4.1%” pie segment is strangely omitted from the list of countries later. I assume it means “China” owns 4.1% of Pennon Group, which owns Britain’s South West Water, the most expensive in the country.
Now, I ask you, since a few years ago there were reports that gigantic Chinese ocean-going barges were scooping up millions of tonnes of fresh water from the US Great Lakes and carting it all the way back to China, is it possible that some of England’s water is also being secretly carted away by foreign companies?
Just wondering…
‘Cambridge to review its hiring processes…’
Presumably, they’ve just cottoned on to the necessity of checking out claims made about achievements, qualifications and the like?
Those dreaming spires must be conducive to sleeping on the job.
I was left wondering why Dawn French and Lenny Henry split up. Did they tire of trying to ‘out-progressive’ each other?
She does appear to be frightful bore.
I think it may have been Julie Burchill who said ‘fancy living with Lenny Henry and still not being the funniest person in the house’
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“In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that while he will fight the nanny state on many fronts, Westminster’s stance on vertical drinking is not the hill to die on.”
Disagree completely based on the below. Slippery slope.
What is being proposed?
In the draft plans, WCC said it wanted to “discourage excessive drunkenness and encourage the provision of more seating in premises that serve alcohol for people to sit and enjoy a drink and order food by table service in place of open bar space that caters for high volume vertical drinking”.
One policy is to refuse pub, bar, fast food or music venue licences in an area known as the “West End cumulative impact zone”: an area roughly between Oxford Street and Trafalgar Square, taking in Leicester Square and Soho.
“The introduction of measures to reduce the extent of, or to remove opportunities for, vertical drinking could address the underlying reasons for the policy,” the document reads.
The guidance suggests applicants for new licences should aim for “a predominantly seated operation with fixed seating”, alongside waiter service replacing vertical drinking and restrictions on customers consuming alcohol while standing.
Vertical drinking FFS !
Well it’s better than horizontal drinking which tends to make a mess of the shirt.
FFS indeed
Why are Jason Arday and Miatta Fahnbulleh never seen together?
Maybe he claims to be her!
Woke leftists like O’Brien never accept responsibility for anything so it must be forced upon him.
I was surprised that he’d admitted to feeling like a ‘mug’, although the snippets I’ve seen of him suggests he often acts like one.
O’brien is what’s known as a first class cnut.
“No, Westminster isn’t banning ‘vertical drinking”
I start off vertical drinking but usually end up horizontal!
If you order from your table it will all be cashless. Hidden agenda maybe.
Its the Wetherspoons serving model, and I haven’t heard anyone complain. Seriously though, there shouldn’t be anything to stop you from standing at the bar and boring everyone while getting steamed. You get to have all kinds of chats with all kinds of friends and strangers,.
You missed the point.
Considering the restrictions imposed by my weekly allowance, I have not even bothered to look up what ‘vertical drinking’ is.
“The Swedish climate activist, 23, was quickly identified by fellow fans despite her disguise at the Belfast gig”
by the time I was 23 i was a fully qualified city and guilds carpenter and joiner, what exactly is Thunbergs trade/job title/training/student status/career? so she pays her way by being a “climate activist”..how?
Just like music bands fame doesn’t last for ever, what is she going to do for a real living when this craze is over?
I was wondering how she got to Belfast from Gaza. Did she swim, or hitch a cruise on a solar-powered yacht?
Also, what does she earn so as to buy concert tickets?
And, finally, why Kneecap and Bob Vylan?
She’s a very mixed-up girl/goblin.
“Labour looks to row back on Net Zero targets”
The Secretary is a fully paid up Marxist Green Nutter in the mould of the previous incumbent. Toning down the Nett Zero nonsense will not sit well with her.
“Archbishop Sarah Mullally is making the same error as Justin Welby on slavery reparations”
A foolish woman, who succeeded a foolish man, about to give away £100m to people who don’t deserve it, instead of using it to do good things in this country for people who do.
Well said – expecting dwindling congregations to carry out heroic fundraising in order to keep their historical church buildings from falling down.
She’s wearing the same skirt, so why would the policy be different?
“90-second power failure triggers two days of rail chaos”
I did hear from someone who knows something that the back up diesel generators had no diesel fuel in them, and that was just as well as they hadn’t been tested since before lockdown. He may be talking nonsense, of course. But then again…
“Burnham’s water nationalisation ‘risks costing taxpayers £140 billion’”
A bargain! Can we have two please.?
How much per annum would a nationalised water industry lose.
With that sort of money involved, wouldn’t it be cheaper if we all just bought, drank and bathed in the bottled stuff?
Its the sort of question Rory Sutherland would pose. Back in the days of the ONDigital ITV sports spin off, they reckoned that some of the lesser watched games were costing more than hiring coaches to take the viewers to watch it in real life, along with a slap up meal and a taxi home.
I don’t think so. Back in the 1930s there was a very strong national identity and communism was thriving.
It’s not complicated. There are plenty of people who would rather have things given to them than have to work for them, who envy those who do better than them and who would rather do things by force than by voluntary agreement.
And from time to time they organise and become a force.
It is as much about the incessant enfeebling of our nation. The rise of communism in the 1930’s came from the hangover of the Great War, and economic depression through the 1920’s to the Great Depression of 1931 and subsequent years. People who have the same feelings band together often around a simple solution (‘smash it up and start again’). When emotions are high, moderate considered voices are not heard.
The British economic performance between the wars was not great snd in some industries, in some years it was dire. According to the internet:
Between 1928 and 1939, the UK economy experienced the turbulence of the Great Depression followed by a steady domestic-led recovery. Nominal GDP fluctuated roughly between £4.5 billion and over £5.5 billion. Unlike the US or Germany, Britain suffered a milder output drop (around 6%), bouncing back after abandoning the gold standard in 1931.