A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
The last time a Cambridge Vice-Chancellor was deprived of office was on 7 May 1687. John Peachell had refused to comply with James II’s order to award an MA degree to the Catholic monk Alban Francis without requiring the customary religious oaths.…
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Professor Nigel Peake is scheduled to assume the Mastership of Darwin College on 1 October 2026. His election took place before the “Cambridge Whistleblowing” Employment Tribunal, whose hearing was in June 2026, with further private hearings…
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The current issue of ‘The Reporter’ contains much of interest. First, the Grace for an audit of the Human Resources division has been published. It is on page 7. The Grace is intended to strengthen and…
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If you are a member of Regent House, please urgently consider signing the Grace, which calls for an external audit. The Grace was motivated primarily by difficulties experienced by staff in the MRC Epidemiology Unit and within University…
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Female students make serious allegations about a Professor’s conduct. The Professor 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…
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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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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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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,…
