21percent.org. The 21 Group

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

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Blog · 28 Jul 2026

Who paid for Carter-Ruck …

The story at Retraction Watch here is the most damaging yet. Once allegations were raised, the issue ceased to be a matter solely for the individual academic. It became a test of Cambridge’s commitment to academic…

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Blog · 27 Jul 2026

Sadness and Horror

Sometimes a single post captures, with uncomfortable precision, the mix of emotions many of us are struggling to articulate. It reflects not only the depth of feeling across our community, but also our grief that something…

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Blog · 22 Jul 2026

Of Plagiarism and Cambridge University

Cambridge University’s Professor of the Sociology of Education, Jason Arday, has become the subject of allegations of plagiarism. Dr Nathan Cofnas has highlighted a number of passages that appear to show close textual similarities between Arday’s…

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Blog · 20 Jul 2026

The Irresistible Rise of the 21 Group

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…

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Blog · 15 Jul 2026

Grace Update

Studio publicity still of Grace Kelly for the film Rear Window (1954) The Grace has now secured more than the required 50 signatures to proceed to a vote of Regent House. The petition will remain open for additional…

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Blog · 11 Jul 2026

Another Cambridge Scandal Breaks

A major investigation by Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes of Byline Times here and here exposes a web of connections linking Cambridge University, Reform UK and Trump-aligned US tech billionaire Peter Thiel — raising fundamental questions…

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