The Huppert Scandal

The 21 Group predicted that 2026 would be the Year of Scandals for Cambridge University. Those scandals are now arriving thick and fast. The Simon Goldhill Affair involved a distinguished classicist at King’s College, Cambridge. Allegations of sexual misconduct against him were upheld by the University. His “touchy-feely” behaviour had Read more…

WANTED — For Destruction of A World Class University

From top left, clockwise: Karen Cox, Shearer West, Paul Greatrix, Margaret Monckton This week saw the horrible news that Nottingham University has sent letters to 2,700 staff putting them at risk of redundancy. The university is targeting subjects and departments with low staff-to-student ratios, specifically including physics, medicine, health sciences, modern languages, history and music. Read more…

Surviving Simon Goldhill

We provide further testimony regarding Simon Goldhill. We thank our contributor for her honesty in recounting difficult details. Unfortunately, ‘sharking’ remains commonplace in many UK universities, as the Warwick University rapechat scandal demonstrated in 2019. It’s still a problem in Cambridge undergraduate life, from colleges to sports clubs to societies, Read more…

Face Wet with Tears

The death of Dr Jane Ying Wu, covered in Nature Careers (2026), is a profound tragedy. Following an administrative investigation at Northwestern University that resulted in the loss of her laboratory and funding, she was left without the work to which she had devoted her life. She killed herself on Read more…

Managed Non-Communication

“Goldhill-Watch” returns shortly. Additional material has been circulated to the 21 Group regarding his management of CRASSH. Simon Goldhill seems to now have a low profile on the CRASSH website. Similarly the, Cambridge Traditional Jewish Congregation has removed all references to Simon Goldhill on its website and replaced him as Read more…

Love, Sex and Tragedy

Recent disclosures in The Times and Daily Telegraph concerning Simon Goldhill must have come as little surprise in King’s College or the Classics Faculty at Cambridge. His aggressive pattern of conduct extended over many years — arguably decades — and was widely recognised among colleagues. It was remarked by a Read more…