21percent.org. The 21 Group

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

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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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Blog · 10 Aug 2026

21 Group Stats Climb Higher Still

There was a dip after all the excitement of the Employment Tribunal. But, things are never dull in scandal-hit Cambridge University. The average of the last week is ~ 3,000 visits a day, so at that…

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