21percent.org. The 21 Group

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

Blog · 16 Sep 2026

The Strathclyde Professor

Female students make serious allegations about a Professor’s conduct. The Professors is dismissed after an investigation. Police are investigating. And yet some of the students who raised concerns were reportedly not told what the University’s investigation had concluded. That is one of…

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Blog · 10 Sep 2026

The Student Cambridge Did Not Want To Protect

Roshaan Khattak is an exiled Pakistani documentary filmmaker. Until 18 December 2025, he was a postgraduate researcher at Wolfson College, Cambridge, working on enforced disappearances and state killings in Baluchistan, a province of Pakistan through which the China-Pakistan Economic…

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Blog · 3 Sep 2026

The Curious Case of James Orr

James Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026,  Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage’s party as an “insurgent right-wing force” and Cambridge as a useful recruiting…

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Blog · 1 Sep 2026

Botnet Attack on the 21 Group

Last Thursday, 28 August, someone put quite a lot of effort into knocking 21percent.org offline. Between Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning, the site absorbed 12.27 gigabytes of traffic — roughly ten times a typical week here,…

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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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