Total page views on the 21 Group website have now surpassed 400,000.
It took nearly two years to reach the first 100,000 views; that figure is now being added approximately every six weeks, reflecting a marked acceleration in engagement.
Plans are underway to further develop the website into an even more effective campaigning tool. The 21 Group believes it has already had a significant impact, with contributions and reports from universities including Keele, Nottingham, Anglia Ruskin, Cardiff, Bristol, Oxford, LSE, Newcastle, University College London, and Imperial College London. We continue to welcome further submissions, both nationally and internationally. Please send to contact@21percent.org
The 21 Group also considers that its work has contributed to a notable shift in the climate at Cambridge University, offering both support and a sense of hope to those affected.
30 Comments
TheResearcher · 20 July 2026 at 08:25
Well done!
How many of these pageviews are from HR and others who track what we say here? UCam must have a dedicated team just for that… what a sad job!
VCwatch · 20 July 2026 at 08:40
How many are from the VC?
Probably this is the best resource of information as to what is going on. If she is still listening to those around her, she’s getting a completely wrong picture
TheResearcher · 20 July 2026 at 08:53
The VC just needs to read the emails that are sent to her directly, namely from victims.
If Prof. Prentice is using the 21 Group to get reliable information about the institution she should run, I think it would be fair if she could donate part of her salary to improve the platform. One idea of development could be to start a weekly magazine where cases of bullying and harassment in UK universities would be published, where victims could come together to “break the silence” and professional journalists could run investigations without fears of nonjudicial gagging.
21percent.org · 20 July 2026 at 09:13
You would need to have a way of controlling false accusations. In fact, these are very common at Cambridge University & have caused many of the serious problems.
Blacklisted · 20 July 2026 at 09:21
Defamation and malicious falsehoods are endemic at Cambridge University. They wreck careers and lives.
And, worse still, they contribute to re-writing the history of academic discoveries.
TheResearcher · 20 July 2026 at 09:22
That is why hiring professional journalists, who could check the available evidence before publishing the story, would be necessary!
Blacklisted · 20 July 2026 at 09:58
The gross defamation of colleagues in Astronomy, and how this has been allowed to spread as “another side to the story” should remind us all that it isn’t just journalists who should check the evidence before proceeding with further “publication”.
TheResearcher · 20 July 2026 at 10:08
UCam will not check any evidence while these managers are there. It has become very clear. That is not their priority. One question that needs to be addressed about these defamations is who suggests the original defamation claims. Is it the person who makes the complaints or someone else in the background who used that person to raise a counter-complaint and balance the situation, namely to make it seem a clash between colleagues?
? · 20 July 2026 at 16:14
VC would have to be clicking “refresh” a lot to generate 100,000 extra page views… also these are views, right, not “hits”, so even doing that would still only count as 1 page view? Though maybe her page view(or 5-10 views assuming she read a few different threads) is somewhere in the crowd…
Agatha · 20 July 2026 at 18:13
Well, VC does not appear to be doing anything else (apart from her turn at Bury St Edmunds, where she was the star of the show)
Anonymous · 20 July 2026 at 19:20
And apparently wasn’t very well prepared for that either (at least based on the notes that went round, have no idea how it sounded in person but seemed pretty stream of consciousness)
Hmmm · 20 July 2026 at 20:07
“How do I get out of here?”
TheResearcher · 20 July 2026 at 20:14
“Why did I trust Munir? He told me everything was fine…”
Sad · 20 July 2026 at 10:21
“Is it the person who makes the complaints or someone else in the background who used that person to raise a counter-complaint and balance the situation, namely to make it seem a clash between colleagues?”
Very perceptive
human remains · 20 July 2026 at 12:16
HR justify their budget based on the number of “cases” they have to manage. They deliberately maximise the number of conflicts for this reason by stirring staff against each other, then never resolving anything. By banning said staff from communication they ensure they will never achieve peaceful resolution but depend on HR indefinitely.
HR create the problem, then present themselves to management as the “solution”. It is fraud.
Occupational Hazard · 20 July 2026 at 13:11
“It is fraud”
It is worse than that. Some of these individuals clearly enjoy the sparks that fly when people are set up against each other, as well as the resulting suffering – which can lead to life-changing health conditions or even death.
They fan the flames, as if stimulated by OH reports to create even more damage. All the while, feigning concern and setting up more traps into which to manoeuvre their victims.
The perpetrators are known, repeatedly flagged as dangerous. They remain employed, un-investigated and protected.
Cycle · 20 July 2026 at 15:24
It is indeed worse. The Cambridge University NHS scandal was appalling, but ultimately a question of negligence: there is nothing to suggest that the management intended to cause physical harm to children, other patients, or most doctors and nurses.
By contrast, there may be much to suggest that HR managers intended to cause harm to staff who raised concerns about their conduct.
That may in the end make it a criminal investigation and a police matter, just as other universities are facing investigation on variegated grounds.
💯% · 20 July 2026 at 20:53
They are unaccountable and they know they are unaccountable.
- · 20 July 2026 at 22:00
21pc is the only form of accountability…. that and the press. Doctor in the previous thread (writing about CUH) nailed it. Internal complaints dragged out for years only when BBC covered it “suddenly” patients had to be heard. But the same hand-wringing managers had been washing their hand of it for years and years beforehand.
TheResearcher · 21 July 2026 at 06:23
True. The 21 Group & press can be more effective than the internal procedures.
This said, do not ignore the importance of reporting the issues to MPs and sponsors as well when appropriate. Do not expect that they alone will solve the problem, namely if you report as a single individual reporting on a single case. However, if multiple people report, either individually or as a collective, you are creating a record in these institutions that at some point can no longer be ignored and signal to the University that we are not blindly following their enforced confidentiality.
People who are experiencing problems in Cambridge University Hospitals already reported the issues to Daniel Zeichner MP? Please do. He is now aware of a range of issues associated with UCam, and it is just a question of time until he and others intervene directly. We have to keep pushing.
David Dunbar · 20 July 2026 at 14:30
“Think Big, Think Positive, Never Show any Sign of Weakness. Always Go for the Throat. Buy Low, Sell High” [—Louis Winthorp III (played by Dan Akroyd) in the film ‘Trading Places’ (1983)]
Some authoritative individuals, who are not necessarily old in age, have an old-fashioned, conscious/subconscious approach and are still strutting around our work corridors. Some regularly oversell their positives and undersell their weaknesses as regards people-practices; they forget humility, and some ‘go for the throat’. They have inherited or created, and are handing down incorrect, uncivil and worse attitudes, modelling poor behaviour for younger colleagues to follow suit.
Why are we often ‘cluttering’ the management ‘innards’ of our organisations with difficult people? Some lethargic HR directors and their organisation’s leaders and senior managers should be focussing on ‘fitter’ staff-management approaches. Fortunately there are many commentators, researchers and a large collection of various sector people-managers who are ‘resolutely, if more quietly’, telling us how it should be done. Many University senior managers, HR directors and Legal advisors have clearly never bothered to read or apply these approaches and the simple lesson of ‘treat others as you wish to be treated yourself’. [Descriptors taken from a restaurant review by the excellent Grace Dent]
Not always knowing what the quality of the next work interaction will be is the experience of all of us, whatever job we have. Leaders and managers need to ensure, for the sake of their staff, themselves and for the organisation’s performance and progress, that the vast majority of interactions are of a high quality.
This responsibility which goes with the allocation of a varying level of additional power, should not be minimised. From Luke Chapter 12 – “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded”, via Voltaire, William Lamb, Winston Churchill, to Uncle Ben in Spiderman- “With great power comes great responsibility” (see Quora website), these well-known, related quotes are very much appropriate in this context. [from Dunbar D. (2024) ‘So You Want To Be a Manager?’ Chptr. 1]
exCam · 20 July 2026 at 14:40
The Cambridge central university HR scandal is just as bad as the Cambridge University Hospital HR scandal that has been breaking since the end of last year… and if managers try to cover it up, they won’t be coming out of this looking any better than those who covered up the hospital tragedies.
Sunk · 20 July 2026 at 15:11
There is a lot more to find out about “Sinker” and his “transfer” from CUH to Cambridge University
nc · 20 July 2026 at 16:42
Thanks for the tip, will get on to it asap.
MUSKETEER · 20 July 2026 at 17:00
REDACTED lurks over all of this HR shit! She is evil incarnate, corrupt to the core, mean, manipulative and almost for sure criminal in her acts! I know for a fact, Porthos told me (!), that on several occasions with different victims she was told of acts of serious bullying and harassment committed by members of the oligarchy or their protegees and she simply ignored or even worse threatened the victims with potential counterclaim. She is a viper disguised as a benign snake.
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Obvious · 20 July 2026 at 17:55
HR have brought this down on the whole leadership and it obviously isn’t stopping any time soon.
Agatha · 20 July 2026 at 18:11
Yes, it is all out war against the HR bandits. We will win
- · 20 July 2026 at 18:18
Once a fire has started, it will keep burning until all the trees are gone. What is insane is just how long the university let this smoulder when it was obvious this would eventually break loose
ARAMIS · 20 July 2026 at 18:11
Everybody know who the REDACTED lady is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TheResearcher · 20 July 2026 at 18:33
Well, actually, there is more than 1 who would fit to a T to that description and I am not even sure that the lady who was redacted above is the worst. Let’s just say that the lady above is not the one redacted in my posts, but they are friends!