21percent.org. The 21 Group

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

Blog · 4 Oct 2026

Who Is Reviewing Cambridge?

In the wake of the loss of the Cambridge Whistleblowing Tribunal, and with the Grace impending, the University of Cambridge has announced the membership of the committee tasked with examining its human resources (HR) processes. The committee is chaired by Laura Whyte,…

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Blog · 1 Oct 2026

7th May 1687

The last time a Cambridge Vice-Chancellor was deprived of office was on 7 May 1687. John Peachell had refused to comply with James II’s order to award an MA degree to the Catholic monk Alban Francis…

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Blog · 27 Sep 2026

Disgrace College, Cambridge

Professor Nigel Peake is scheduled to assume the Mastership of Darwin College on 1 October 2026. His election took place before the “Cambridge Whistleblowing” Employment Tribunal, whose hearing was in June 2026, with further private hearings…

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Blog · 16 Sep 2026

The Strathclyde Professor

Female students make serious allegations about a Professor’s conduct. The Professor is dismissed after an investigation. Police are investigating. And yet some of the students who raised concerns were reportedly not told what the University’s investigation…

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Blog · 10 Sep 2026

The Student Cambridge Did Not Want To Protect

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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Blog · 3 Sep 2026

The Curious Case of James Orr

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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