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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,…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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The Vice Chancellor’s recent statement was first sent as a pdf to selected colleagues. The pdf metadata show the pdf was created by Sally Valletta from a Word document owned by Sally Valletta generated on 11…
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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…