21percent.org. The 21 Group

A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.

Blog · 24 Aug 2026

The Vice Chancellor’s Position is Safe … For Now

Another petition! Who in Cambridge is feeding all this stuff to the Good Law Project? Jolyon Maugham, whose interventions in the Arday affair have been wholly destructive, is now calling for Deborah Prentice to resign as Vice-Chancellor. This makes her completely safe:…

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Blog · 18 Aug 2026

Playing the Long Game in UK Academia

Professor David Latchman has just been appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of London. He has prospered mightily, despite a checkered past. During the 2000s, David Latchman ran a laboratory at University College London (UCL), where…

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Blog · 15 Aug 2026

Rest in Peace, Jason Arday

Very tragic news has broken about the death of Jason Arday. Whatever mistakes you may have made, and whatever controversies surrounded you, your life was worth more than the way it was ultimately treated. You were…

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Blog · 14 Aug 2026

A Crisis and an Opportunity

There are good articles in The Telegraph here and the Times here today. The 21 Group has some sympathy for the Vice Chancellor over the Jason Arday fiasco because the appointment happened before she arrived (though…

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Blog · 13 Aug 2026

Gotcha!

The snippet above is taken from the Tribunal Judgment by Employment Judge Graham: “Ghost writing was a consistent and concerning theme throughout this matter“ An email comes purportedly from the Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice at 13…

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Blog · 11 Aug 2026

For All the Victims

The running of the Human Resources and Legal divisions at Cambridge University has created many victims who could not fight back — young and early-career scholars, those without standing or status in the University, those without…

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