{"id":4192,"date":"2026-08-13T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:00:21","slug":"gotcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Gotcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An email comes purportedly from the Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice at 13 Aug 2026, at 15:23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who really wrote the email?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can look at the source code. We can use MacMail and hover over with our cursor. Or we can copy the email into a text editor (like emacs). In every case, a name appears:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These issues began before my time, but they have come to a conclusion on my watch. I want to now ensure that they are assessed thoroughly and independently, and that we can learn from them and make the necessary changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our aim must be clear: a Cambridge in which academic excellence, merit, fairness and due process are not simply principles we affirm, but standards that are consistently reflected in how we make decisions and how we treat our people.
Yours sincerely,
Kamal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Deborah Prentice
Vice-Chancellor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Yours sincerely, Kamal<\/em>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is strange. Why does the name of Prof Kamal Munir appear? A deep dive in recent all staff messages reveals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 7 May 2024: “All-staff notice” (from Munir personally, on the tracked channel): signature image w660_78529_kamal_2022_si.jpg, alt=”Kamal”. This is a genuinely Munir-signed message, the image file itself is named kamal_2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 29 Jul 2024: “Pay and benefits package”: signature image w660_78530_kamal_2022_st.jpg, alt=”Kamal”, again a Munir signature block, image filename explicitly kamal_2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 21 Jul 2025: “Professional Services Recognition Scheme is now open”: signature image w660_78530_kamal_2022_st.jpg, alt=”Kamal”, same Munir signature asset reused a year later.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 31 Mar 2026 \u2014 Rokos School donation announcement: signature image 225309_debbie_2023.png, alt=”Debbie”, a different Prentice signature asset with a correct (informal) alt attribute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore, in 2024 the template’s signature slot was populated with Prof Kamal Munir’s signature image (w660_78529_kamal_2022_si.jpg \/ w660_78530_kamal_2022_st.jpg), hard-coded with alt=”Kamal”. Those messages were genuinely from Prof Kamal Munir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When someone later reused that template block for the Prentice-signed message (the 13 August 2026 message on Jason Arday & Wyn Evans), they swapped the src= to debbie_se_500.png but didn’t update the alt\/title attributes, leaving the stale alt=”Kamal”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In itself, this does not prove that Prof Kamal Munir was the original author. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What is reasonable to infer is that for whatever reason, the communications team when first drafting the 13 August message began with an email block addressed from Kamal Munir, and including his image. This may have been a completely unrelated email in to which they dropped the Vice Chancellor’s text, or it may have been a first draft with Kamal Munir indicated as the intended signatory. Then, at some point, prior to it being sent, the image was replaced with Deborah Prentice, but without changing the “alt” tag attributed to Kamal Munir. The latter seems more likely than the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So, who really wrote the email?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Professor Kamil Munir, probably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Not least because the idea of circumventing the existing Grace on an external HR audit by using the University’s internal Audit Committee was expressed by him earlier. It’s his idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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