219 Responses to Weekend 15th August 2026

  1. Deborah says:

    I suspect there are many lecturers, professors and researchers at UK universities who are prepared to gild the lily of their research, or indeed of their whole life. Jason Ardey took it to a whole new level. But our criticism wasn’t really of him.

    Our scorn was for the Lefties of academia, the Lefterati who appointed him. We all know it was their desperation to hire a young black person from a deprived background, they were eager to ignore the fact that his academic ability wasn’t up to it.

    I feel no guilt. Ardey was a liar and I don’t like liars. But the real guilt for his death should be felt by those who knew why they were appointing him and those pushing the DEI agenda.

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    • tomo says:

      There will surely be claims that Jason Arday was hounded to his sad demise – I stand by my assertion that he was a victim of the DEI obsessed progressives – anyone who’s made the the sort of claims he did is going to be psychologically fragile – the moment the storm broke the people who put him into the situation must take some responsibility – The Priory or something similar… I wonder if he asked for help and his calls weren’t answered.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Deborah – all true – but that ‘white guilt ‘ thing is deadly – that they get a warm feeling by putting a black face in a job for which they are in no way qualified – the country must be full of them at various levels ….
      I’ve experienced it personally and it’s bloody painful to see someone out of their depth and given a job just because some one needs a quota …

      As I said on the previous thread – I wonder how long this will be on the ‘news ‘ agenda ….

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      • wwfc says:

        Just wait until the black bloke who claims he was the best RAF pilot ever, turned down NASA to work at EasyJet, and then the plane goes down, killing two or three hundred people.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Well said. “Those who live by the sword, DEI by the sword.”

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Deborah,
      His death is a tragedy for his family and friends as all deaths are .
      However, for the woke brigade , academia as a whole and of course Cambridge , not mention his legion of woke supporters like the BBC, and the whole DEI plan, it is very timely .
      It will be used to deflect any follow up into why he was appointed to a position which was miles above his abilities. Allow his supporters to wipe off some of the egg on their faces and be used to stop any further inquiry into other academics , there are many, who have been promoted well above their abilities on the back of DEI.
      Indeed the timing is so good that if this were a spy story you would be suspicious that dark forces weren’t at work.

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  2. wwfc says:

    When are we going to say we have had a fucking enough just look at this ffs……..

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      So what the liberal bed-wetter from the Salvation Army was saying is that we must have borders and private property must be defended against invaders and the police must be called to do this, but the country must not have borders and the police must not defend the borders of our country from illegal invaders.

      That sounds a bit two-tier to me.

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    • taffman says:

      “Stop the boats” and “Crush the gangs” . When , Mr Burnham, when ?
      When are you going to call a General Election to legitimise your office as Prime Minister ?

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  3. Deborah says:

    I really came here to post about the new Fire minister but I do feel sadness that Jason Ardey has died.

    I was curious what qualifications Baroness Blake of Leeds has to become Fire Minister. I googled her. She was leader of Leeds Council (Labour of course), but certainly Wiki doesn’t provide any clue why she is the most suited for the job.

    I am wondering what the Baroness’ remit is. I am hoping she has the power to over rule the eco lobby and declare that in future there should be controlled burning on moors and arable areas to ensure there isn’t plenty of tinder around in hot summers. I am hoping as the Baroness drives from Leeds to London (or do I mean Manchester?) to perform her duties, she might notice that councils are no longer trimming branches and they now hide the road signs that give us all a clue which road we need to take. It is all very well banning disposable barbeques (probably a good idea anyway) but do we or the government actually know that they are the cause of these fires.

    I think it is a Denis Howell moment. According to the weather forecast on GBNews there is rain forecast for central England tonight. I predicted something like that when I heard that Handy Andy was holding a COBRA meeting a few days ago. He was probably told that the hot weather was about to break.

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    • harry142857 says:

      I wouldn’t worry, Arday claims to be Lazarus, he will emerge from a cave on Sunday. (yes, maybe a little tasteless)

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      • tomo says:

        I wonder if Arday’s progressive colleagues / employers shunned him – seems all defenders fell away quite quickly once it hit the MSM.

        Simon Webb at History Debunked has posted on the matter – and that is relevant as he flagged Arday as a problem some 4 years ago – so Cambridge had an extended period to deal with the situation. This is 100% Cambridge University’s fault – imho.

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      • Flotsam says:

        He’ll claim he’s come back from the dead three times before.

        Arday’s death is of course a very modern British parable of woke and DEI, and very sad of course.

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        • tomo says:

          Feeding a fake account of death into the MSM frenzy (they surely wouldn’t have checked) – would’ve been a masterstroke and would probably have nuked the entire topic/story….

          As it stands – I’d wager (with near zero evidence) that the man was floundering and obviously in need of real help and all those “caring” virtue signallers around him simply zoned him out to minimise any contagion…..

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  4. pugnazious says:

    A great heatwave, lack of rain, water shortages and rationing, wildfires and apocalyptic warnings about food shortages….an unprecedented harbinger of planet destroying climate change?

    Hmmmm….wasn’t that the situation in 1976 when people were told to ‘bath with a friend’ in 3 inches of water? In fact 1976 would have been worse….the dry spell was actually over an 18 month period with the 1975 winter being very dry….however the 1976 winter was very very wet….so the usual narrative that climate change will bring hot summers and wet winters was already operating in 1976 when climate change wasn’t a thing….could it just be ‘weather’?

    As with covid when people were not convinced the government decided that we had to be frightened into believing and thus we get the alarmist apocalyptic claims about climate change now ramped up to the nth degree in order to scare us into submission.

    ‘Matt Hancock told aides he wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” to ensure compliance with Covid-19 restrictions, according to the latest batch of leaked messages which reveal discussions over when to “deploy” details of a new strain.’

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Was that the year we were encouraged to put a house brick in the toilet water cistern.

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    • G says:

      On the Covid subject, If you don’t know already, make a mental note about the likely next flu jabs this winter:

      See the most trusted John Campbell:

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  5. harry142857 says:

    When I was ten, my schoolmate, Christopher Chadwick wrote a poem about the drought and sent it to Dennis Howell. It was published in The Sun, on page three naturally. He told me later, that his father had written it for him.

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  6. pugnazious says:

    On Jason Arday’s death the BBC has suddenly prioritised the story as its world top story….after having studiously ignored the furore over his appointment and DEI….which I think shows that the story was, of course, an important one for many reasons, the same reasons that the BBC tried to ignore or downplay it….which they will continue to do whilst hunting down those it will blame for his death.

    You can bet the BBC and allies will now be casting blame for Arday’s death in an attempt to silence future criticism of DEI in the interest of the mental health of anyone being investigated. Naturally this approach will not apply to the likes of Nigel Farage for whom a relentlessly intense barrage of questioning and challenges is legitimate…openness, transparency and accountability being very very important…just not if you’re one of the BBC’s favoured pet groups.

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    • G says:

      “……casting blame for Arday’s death”. Unless it was another Ann Widdecome style ending, Arday committed suicide. That’s it, Simples.

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  7. Eddy Booth says:

    They’re already writing poems about him online:

    Professor Arday was a Cambridge shill.
    Always lied, always will.
    Once lied loud and now lies still.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I saw one on x a couple of days ago ‘ardays night ‘…

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      • harry142857 says:

        Second mate on HMS Victory, kiss me Arday were Nelsons actual last words.

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        • G says:

          Steady on harry ! Don’t encourage the shills who are intent upon changing our history to one where the blacks are present in every generation back to stone age times………….

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    I guess all criticism of anyone will have to end now until the PM Andy Burnham and Gov do a report and scour the internet for the causes of Mr. Arday’s death – which will be hate and intolerance – which will fill up the prisons.

    And remember that some deaths have more meaning to the BBC than others …. Keir will kneel for Mr Arday ….

    “Deng Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver in a frenzied 90-second attack in 2024 after following the 27-year-old to Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall. He was later caught on CCTV dancing and laughing.”

    …….
    Chairman of scandal-hit think tank helped appoint Cambridge diversity poster boy
    Labour peer Baroness Morgan was on panel that chose professor at centre of plagiarism claims
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/02/scandal-think-tank-appoint-cambridge-diversity-poster-boy/
    Baroness Morgan, who became a Labour peer in 2001, with Andy Burnham, in 2024 Credit: Facebook

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    A labour coloured female councillor in Essex taking a caution for threatening to kill a reform councillor only turned up on X – and the fact she has been summonsed for non payment of council tax is equally unreported …

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  10. Richard Pinder says:

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    The British people versus the far-left British Establishment.

    Almost two thirds of the British people voted for Farage. Farage won with 22,239 votes (63.3%), followed by Count Binface with 9,455 (26.9%). The other 32 candidates received 3,417 (9.73%) of the vote. Nigel Farage represented the British people. Count Binface represented the British Establishment.

    Count Binface was recruited by Private Eye editor, Ian Hislop, as a satirical pro-establishment left-wing candidate, to represent the Labour/Lib Dem/Green/Conservative socialist Uniparty. The left-wing DEI Tory leader told the right-wing people of Clacton that Count Binface was better than Farage, saying “You deserve better than Farage”. Count Binface lost because he was a pro-EU Globalist, Communist, Marxist, Socialist and a Satanist who identified with Islamic ideology, and therefore gaslit rape victims and hated the vaccine injured antivaxers.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      It struck me that that costume the bin faced clown is wearing looks to be very professionally made. Could it have come from the bBC’s costume department?

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Well, considering that he formerly worked at the BBC, as a ‘comedy’ (sic) writer, he would certainly have the contacts there.

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      • tomo says:

        Northern Voter

        almost certainly … (More than a hint of cyberman?) from one of BBC Studios workshops – be good to know the real provenance and if they were careful about it…

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    • Philip_2 says:

      Richard it was also revealed by the BBC that Count bin Face worked for the BBC as a (unfunny) ‘Comedy Script writer’ Jon harvery. No doubt they (BBC) helped support it and revel in the controversy. He got 7,000 votes and is now famous at the Edinburgh Fringe currently going on. So much for BBC political independence. Ex BBC James Purnell is currently advising Andy Burnham’s propaganda campaign.

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  11. Pete says:

    I assume this individual who’s wearing the next generation Burka was bullied at school. .

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Im not in the uk for another 4 weeks ( hopefully ) and dont have a TV – so I get stuff off of the www – I have ‘prime ‘ – and am watching the excellent ‘Clarksons ‘ farm ‘… but here is an irony alert – im watching the one where he declares he has prostate cancer – caught early ……
    But in the press – ladies and gents is news that the NHS is to cut back on PSA tests – a decision made by some quango …..
    A cynic might think it’s one of those ‘nasty ‘ decisions which burnham can get brownie points for reversing – 2 ex PMs have said WTF about it – yet alone all the celebs affected by prostate cancer …. Funny world innit ?

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  13. StewGreen says:

    I have sympathy for bullies, understand that past bad experiences can be the cause
    and I will try to help them get on better behaviour
    However I don’t have much sympathy for suicide-threateners as it is a form of bullying
    The ultimate “stop the game. it’s my ball and my ball and I am going to take it home”
    .. and I can’t help them if they are dead.

    Of course some suicides are really murders

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC lefty Paul Lewis says the Noticers are the baddies
      https://x.com/paullewismoney/status/2088354936106971543

      Many from the usual lefty universe have also WEAPONISED Ardays decide spread HATE and division against the noticers

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Comrade Lewis very upset – but those commenting on X point out why journalists were looking at him – and the fact he tried to use plod to suppress / intimidate journalists seems forgotten…

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        • Guest Who says:

          Mad Al weighs in.

          A reply:

          https://x.com/goosey30111568/status/2088514772241133781?s=12
          If only you’d reached out to Dr David Kelly.
          You didn’t though, he was smeared by the No10 Spin, you were head of.

          How long before the BBC’s fave psycho gob is wall to wall, intoning….

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          • StewGreen says:

            One wonders why Campbell doesn’t stay silent as about 1000 replies go against him
            Sure he got 4,500 Likes from 384K views
            But that is tiny fraction of his 1 million followers

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    • StewGreen says:

      I will backtrack in the light of day
      Cos although in my experience the majority of suicide threateners are bullies, I can understand there can be some genuine people who come from sudden despair..like people who have raped or naive people suddenly harassed

      Paz49 has a good take on Arday .https://youtu.be/2bSIGyB7pSk

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  14. tomo says:

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  15. Scroblene says:

    Seventy four years ago today, the delightful village of Lynmouth was destroyed under a deluge of water cascading down from the moors above.

    There has been speculation that the huge downpour which lifted the rivers to a new height, were caused by cloud seeding experiments with silver iodide crystals being scattered over clouds, which then precipitated an extraordinary amount of rain over the dry moorlands, which, like squeezing a sponge, just gave up and dropped the lot into the rivers.

    Maybe a few ounces of the stuff could be used around now – it may make us all feel a bit cooler…

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  16. harry142857 says:

    Modern policing

    Use your phone

    Just Google “objective basis”

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  17. JohnC says:

    Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no

    I can only begin to imagine they excitement in the BBC news offices when this story broke.

    … and straight away the BBC are in there writing:

    ‘Arday’s family said in a statement that they were “in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son”.’

    ‘They added: “The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone.”‘

    So I had a chat with AI and it told me this:
    ‘the factual evidence shows that the primary source of false information was Jason Arday himself, rather than the media’

    And of course it’s relentless:
    ‘LJMU – which awarded Arday his PhD in 2015 – concluded that he had not plagiarised work.’
    AI tells me:
    ‘Software proved that over 100 passages in his PhD thesis were copied from someone else.’

    Then:
    ‘The university will have to answer bigger questions including about its duty of care after it put him into a very prominent position.’
    When of course the infinitely more important questions they should answer are why he was put there in the first place. But of course the BBC don’t go near that.

    They even put:
    ‘The book tells the story of his life from being non-verbal until the age of 11 and unable to read or write until 18,’
    AI: ‘ the sheer weight of testimonies from people who lived and studied alongside him as a child directly contradicts his “mute” narrative’

    And so it goes on and on with more of the same. Almost everything they write is a lie, but attributed to someone else. The point here is that the BBC KNOW they are lies but write them anyway. Because their far-Left agenda is more important than truth now.

    It’s sad when anyone kills themselves but all the facts around this show he should never have been in that position in the first place. He was both mentally and academically totally unfit. He was a serial liar.

    He represents death by DEI. His blood is on the hands of those same people lying through their teeth to protect their agenda in this disgusting BBC article.

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    • Scroblene says:

      It seems that everything the bBC writes and says is AI – Artificial Information, i.e., made up…

      Isn’t that Thompson bloke who used to be some honcho at the Beeb doing something over in the US? I wonder if he’s in on their latest panic about President Trump’s lawsuit?

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      • JohnC says:

        Scrobs, AI is used to produce lots of fakes things – but only because people ask it to.

        It is an excellent fact-checker because it reads everything there is about a subject and intelligently cross-references all of it.

        But it’s not so easy to get it to tell you. It starts at the ‘BBC report’ high-level and only digs deeper if you ask it specific questions or throw some claim about the bias in the BBC reports at it and look how it replies.

        This is because it has a top-layer of information it uses to answer your initial question and only digs into it’s detailed database when you ask it to. And the results are usually very interesting. I’ve lost count of how many times it has apologised for misleading me or being totally wrong when it looks more closely.

        I always start with ‘speak plainly’ so it doesn’t treat me like an idiot for the rest of the session.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Excellent description, John!

          Like any interrogation, a reasoned but assertive question will get a totally different answer to any waffle of the sort the bBC shove out. They are after all, only gibbering in catchphrases on their broadcasts, and even on their website, there is never any really deep discussion – it’s more like a tabloid cover-all in lieu of real news.

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  18. JohnC says:

    BBC seeks to subpoena Trump’s family members in Panorama lawsuit
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd69ely319eo

    I see the BBC are getting dirty in their panic at the Trump lawsuit.

    I’m finding more and more that I just use the BBC news for the headlines then go to AI for the story. You discover just how far from the truth the impression they give is. The facts are almost always there in some form, but they are very sly at making them seem unimportant compared to others.

    ‘The BBC isn’t just defending their edit; they are actively trying to put Donald Trump’s presidency on trial again. By demanding testimonies from Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Jared Kushner about the chaos of January 6, they are using the threat of embarrassing, under-oath family disclosures as a legal cudgel.’

    ‘the BBC’s stance is that they have already admitted the edit was wrong and apologised. To then turn around and spend millions on lawyers to argue, “Yes, we faked the edit, but the vibe was right anyway,” feels hypocritical for a public broadcaster that prides itself on strict accuracy.’

    ‘Trump’s supporters see the BBC’s public complaints as a PR stunt designed to make the Trump family look like they are hiding from the law, when in reality, former presidents and their families have strict, non-negotiable Secret Service protocols.’

    The frustration for many British taxpayers comes down to this:
    The BBC used public funds to create a heavily distorted, anti-Trump programme. When they got caught, they had to admit it was a misleading edit. Now, instead of quietly accepting the consequences, they are spending even more public money on expensive American lawyers to aggressively target Trump’s children and son-in-law in court.

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    • Flotsam says:

      I’m wondering what Trump and the American public make of his family being hounded by an arm of the British State.

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Today

    Popcorn time

    The BBC is in full mourning mode over their Cambridge boy …. Both presenters wearing black ties and doing that mournful language which wasn’t heard when Ann Widdecombe was murdered .

    The bias is obvious . And his death is going to used to cover up the fraud and avoid the blame due to those who facilitated that fraud …
    Far left academics are going to cover their tracks to avoid getting caught on false CVs and qualifications – and I bet there’s plenty of evidence being destroyed …particularly to avoid the corruption of plagiarism. And future frauds will take note …

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    • Scroblene says:

      I guess that around now will be the only time the ‘academics’ with ‘degrees’ in politics and the other waste of space, can use the gibberish and leftie dogma they’ve accumulated over the years, and get the shredders going full tilt!

      Linked-in will be in melt-down over the weekend!

      Luckily, Elon Musk has all the copies of their rabid stuff safely stored in a data centre far, far away….

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  20. AsISeeIt says:

    Our BBC’s top news story requires Getty Images to provide a pic of a Cambridge professor… too soon?

    [sympathy to friends, family and colleagues, of course]

    Mr AsI’s thesis (presented hereabouts for peer review, so to speak) is that fellow university dons are ultimately to blame for this tragic outcome – I’m considering calling the RSPCA on them for having mistreated a dumb pet that was in their care.

    I’m assuming, however, this story hasn’t really cut through to the general public consciousness. The regime mouthpiece Times, for example, refers rather vaguely to: Row professor found dead

    The mildly conservative Telegraph’s studiously factual report hints how this story was only of somewhat rarefied interest: Ex-professor Arday found dead – and that’s your lot – no other national daily front page bothers with the news of the sad demise of a black professor who didn’t really have the faculties for the position to which he was promoted.

    In-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror does a front page would-be obituary for Nigel Farage of course.

    One couldn’t help but notice our BBC and indeed the Mirror’s impatience at Farage for having cheated them of the anticipated comic drama of the Clacton vote declaration. The three ring circus was to have starred: Uniparty candidate Count Binface; Nick the Incredible Flying Brick (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party); Howling Laud Hope; Baron Von Thunderclap; Woke Trump Carrzee; and Uncle Tom Cobley (presumably).

    Talk about piqued: Farage did not show up at the count, telling supporters Essex Police had warned him of an “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result”. The BBC has been told Essex Police did not advise any candidate that they should not attend the count. (Joshua Nevett, Political reporter, BBC)

    This palpable BBC annoyance – one would think the umpteenth unfunny series of Have I Got News For You had just been cancelled – combined with this act of spiteful relentless lawfare: Hours after the Clacton result was declared, the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards told the BBC “the investigation is not suspended anymore”. (BBC) – comes over as playground “Ner-ner, ner-ner-ner!”

    So the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has told you that has he, BBC? An earlier iteration of the BBC report said a notice had gone up on their web site within minutes of the Clacton declaration. Which perhaps sounded, journalistically, a tad too cut n paste?

    Talking of drama, what’s on in the West End?

    Cyrano de Bergerac – the tale of the large nosed 17th-century French poet who secretly helps a handsome but inarticulate soldier woo Roxane, the woman they both love. Cyrano secretly supplies his love rival with the romantically winning words which he plagiarises passing off as his own.

    Starring Adrian Lester as Cyrano (you guessed it he’s black) – Oh, the contemporary irony.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Interesting that the standards committee put up a notice about the inquiry continuing straight after the vote was announced .

      Technically I don’t thing Nigel Farage becomes an MP until he takes the oath in front of the speaker / king in parliament … so the announcement might be somewhat premature and points to the corrupt eagerness of thr uniparty to nobble Farage again .

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      • Flotsam says:

        I wondered about that as well. Farage is now newly elected, his previous tenure as MP means whatever declaration made by him then, is surely only valid for that one.

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      • tomo says:

        corrupt eagerness of the uniparty to nobble Farage again

        The Augean Stables need a flushing – that’s abundantly obvious

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    • Flotsam says:

      I wonder if David Lammy went through a similar progression as Arday.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      What did for Arday was the on line bullying , that will be the story in the MSM tomorrow and prompt yet more calls for a clamp down on social media which the government will willingly oblige.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Ex bbc coke head Bacon retweets ex bbc TDS Huw and Cry Ed…

        https://x.com/jonsopel/status/2088357525896786169?s=61

        #ccbgb

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Jon Sopel| @jonsopel
          You really think it’s as clear cut as that? Sure Cambridge have questions to answer. But this became obsessive and ugly bloodsport for certain sections of the press, that was about way more than plagiarism.”

          “Harry Cole | @MrHarryCole
          On Arday, if it is as claimed…

          The only thing that kept the horrible sorry saga going was the wilfully blind defence offered up and the vicious smears on anyone questioning the very obvious. ”

          “Sir Starmeroid |@SStarmeroid
          About as laser-sharp as your judgement on Huw Edwards”

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          • StewGreen says:

            Metrics : Sopel’s tweet had a very large reach almost half a million views
            4,500 Like it that’s Only 1%
            Almost all 600 replies go against him

            Surprising Harry Cole from the Sun didn’t get much better metrics
            Three quarters of a million views, 0.5% Likes
            And I reckon of the replies 200 go against him.. seemingly from lefties who already HATE the sun

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Asiseeit – the decision by Farage not to turn up for the announcement was very very wise . The uniparty had engineered a spectacle through having 35 candidates .

    And I bet a few of them were a real security threat to him .

    The run up to the 2029 general election is going to get dirtier and dirtier – the whole state is geared to attack Farage and Reforn .
    For instance – I am sure the ‘parliamentary uniparty standards committee ‘ will suspend Farage and order another bi election if it can .

    Being a pessimist I really do fear for the safety of Nigel Farage and all reform members – the threat they pose to the uniparty state is too great … and Ann Widdecombe makes these words more than just conspiracy theory .

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    • Flotsam says:

      So, the Police advised Farage not to attend rather do something about it.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Ian ( below )- please don’t try to steal stews ‘ niche for pedanticism – which spell check tried to turn into something to do with feet 😎

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Do you mean by-election?
      I think a ‘bi election’ is where someone succumbs to the proselytising by the BBC and tries to decide if he is a full-blown (no pun intended) homosexual or just bisexual.

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  22. JohnC says:

    This is the ‘standards committee’ which our ‘democracy’ will use to judge Farage’s case:

    ‘To speak plainly and cut through the institutional jargon: If you look at the real-world mechanics of modern British politics, you can assume that 12 out of the 14 committee members are highly likely to oppose Nigel Farage.
    Only 2 members on the entire panel—the Conservative MPs—occupy a gray zone where they might lean either way depending on their own party’s tactical interests.’

    You won’t see that on the BBC.

    He hasn’t got a chance. It’s about as unbiased as the UN council (stuffed with Muslims) voting on Israel.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Agree but I wonder if the increasingly obvious persecution of Nigel Farage might reach a point where some floating voters realise that establishment, the Uniparty, is out to get him by any means fair or foul, and decide to vote Reform.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Lest Nige succumb to relentless persecution for much undeserved or is spared others, presumably the same mob will decide he ‘couldn’t hack legit scrutiny’?

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        They might realise that. But they equally might well believe that ‘there is no smoke without fire’ – if the entire establishment is against him then he really must be a bad ‘un. It’s not hugely popular outside his base, a lot of people view him as a sort of upmarket Del Boy and are prepared to believe the worst.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Best thing Farage can do is say he is happy to be investigated with Barry 500K Chinese spy and Keir 2K glasses with back passes to no.10 and Angela Rayner’s pent house whilst partying with Andy Burnham (burn – haram). Open the can of worms ….

      “After claiming £1.3M on the taxpayer, Rishi Sunak’s wife’s company files for administration with debts of £16M”

      “Sir Keir Starmer did indeed state that he wanted to abolish the House of Lords, calling the unelected upper chamber “indefensible” and pledging to replace it with a democratically elected second chamber to “restore trust in politics””

      “Former top official Robbins takes legal action over sacking”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjegqpwxk98o
      The union said the sacking had taken place without “even the semblance of a fair process” and risked damaging the civil service. A government spokesperson said: “We do not comment on legal proceedings.”

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  23. Scroblene says:

    I’m sure you’re right, DT.

    It’s clear that beeboids and other leftie crowds hate Mr Farage, and the true British Way is to listen harder to the ‘underdog’, and side with him – or her!

    It’s what we do.

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  24. harry142857 says:

    From Youtube

    http://www.youtube.com/@Britishnews.1

    Muslims of the UK,
    My family and I have decided to move to a Muslim country. We haven’t picked which one yet — we’re still shopping for the best benefits package.
    Obviously, all my neighbours want to come too. And their neighbours. And their mates. And their mates’ mates. Before you know it, half of Britain will be turning up with suitcases and a vague sense of entitlement.
    As a large Christian community, we’ll need a few small adjustments:
    Please start building churches immediately. Proper ones with bells. Loud bells.
    We’ll also need certain streets closed once a year for our processions. Don’t worry, it’s not five times a day — we’re not animals.
    Every supermarket must stock proper pork, bacon, sausages, and baked beans. We are a minority now, so you’ll just have to be understanding and accommodating of our way of life.
    We’re bringing all the dogs. Expect many happy Labradors shitting on your pavements. You’ll need dog parks, and you’ll need to smile while we walk them past your mosques.
    While we’re at it, your religious holidays are a bit… much. They might offend the Christian community, so we’d appreciate it if you could quietly bin them. Thanks.
    In schools and workplaces, our children and staff must be allowed to wear large crucifixes, eat ham sandwiches in the canteen, and generally radiate Christian vibes without anyone clutching their pearls. We also demand prayer rooms in every building, plus translators because we can’t be bothered learning Arabic.
    If any of this is refused, please send a list of police station addresses so we can report you for discrimination,christianophobia , and general nastiness.
    One more thing: if my kids burn your flag because England just won at football, please be understanding. I’ll give them a really stern telling-off. Maybe even make them write “sorry” 50 times.
    Finally, we’d like generous benefits, free housing, and pocket money while we “integrate” over the next three generations. Work is optional, obviously also, we wish to drink alcohol and occasionally gamble on the horses. And in good weather we like to go topless. Please bear with us. You will get used to it.
    Appreciate your tolerance in advance. After all, diversity is our strength!
    Yours faithfully,
    A Very Reasonable Christian

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    “The head of the Metropolitan Police has said his force should not have investigated a journalist who was looking into plagiarism claims about a University of Cambridge professor.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rd9y99grzo

    “Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found dead”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9982znvyk4o
    They said a “campaign of misinformation” had been too much for him.

    Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Professor of Black Studies Kehinde Andrews, a friend of Arday, described him as “very down” after resigning from Cambridge.

    End article….”LJMU – which awarded Arday his PhD in 2015 – concluded that he had not plagiarised work.”

    ………………………….

    The Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) is a central government department in George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite its name, it does not deal with facts or reality; instead, it manages public information, rewriting historical records, producing state propaganda, and enforcing doublethink.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    The problem never went away…..

    “The English Crusader | @andrewc44104127

    🚨BREAKING: A fourth South Yorkshire Police officer has been arrested on suspicion rape gang offences in Rotherham
    The police force is rotten to the core.”
    https://x.com/andrewc44104127/status/2088300682403070326

    ………

    “South Yorkshire Police initially investigated its own former officers before the NCA took over the inquiry.

    Among the witness accounts reported by the BBC was the testimony of one woman who said she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving police officer in a marked police car.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m7j2d4n2vo

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  27. tomo says:

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  28. tomo says:

    more stuff you will categorically NOT see on the BBC

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    • tomo says:

      It was obvious even on a trivial look at his antics that Smith were a wrong’un – I’m actually surprised they weren’t more cautious with remuneration – book deal or something….

      -seems like a *lot* of money …. enough to consider Smith a conduit to other bent players?

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    The telegraph carries the dead Cambridge fraudster story – but doesn’t allow comments … presumably it fears defamation if those who selected / approved him are named … or maybe Cambridge has got itself a super injunction …. Via a judge who …went to Cambridge ….

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    • tomo says:

      The barricades will be up and hatches battened down at Jesus College.

      Many serving High Court judges (and judges of higher courts who previously sat in the High Court) are Cambridge alumni ….

      Reputations are at risk – circle the wagons!

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  30. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Isn’t it impressive when the government acts at lightning speed.
    This standards committee out to get Farage, up and running so soon after his re-election demonstrates that if they want to they can do things very quickly.

    It’s a pity they don’t move at the same speed with the things the population really do want sorting out.

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  31. pugnazious says:

    The BBC going down the path you’d absolutely expect regarding the sad tale of Jason Arday as they try to portray him as an innocent who may have made mistakes and was hounded to death for them by racists and the right-wing media….this is the narrative now….Arday was subject to ‘a “campaign of misinformation”‘ and that autism meant ‘plagiarism’ was merely a device to help him understand the world[rather than benefit from stealing the work of others]…he made mistakes but well so what?…and of course…‘”What he was saying to me was ‘they’ve destroyed my life’ – it’s not clear who they were but I think he was referring to the media.”‘

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9982znvyk4o

    Hmmm…the life that was basically created and sustained by a massive raft of lies, lies that pushed him into the limelight…the same media coverage that he revelled in when it was positive and boosted his career? No irony that the BBC illustrate this report with an image of Arday as guest editor on Today…the BBC’s flagship news programme…bit of Black privilege there.

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    Oh hang on…no…no black privilege…they’re all victims of White oppression….says a man who made a career out of talking bollocks…

    ‘Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Professor of Black Studies Kehinde Andrews, a friend of Arday, described him as “very down” after resigning from Cambridge.

    “There should be a wakeup call to just how bad black academics actually have it in academia.”‘

    Maybe Andrews is concerned they might start asking questions about his qualifications and fitness to teach.

    And then again think of all the white teachers, lecturers and professors hounded out of their profession by the woke Left…..ala Kathleen Stock…not for lying endlessly about their life nor for being elevated beyond their ability just for the colour of their skin but because she spoke the truth that others refuse to admit and want to deny the right of others to say.

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    • Flotsam says:

      I have indeed heard on our BBC local radio station this morning that Arday was subject to ‘a “campaign of misinformation”‘

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  32. non-licence payer says:

    Other posters may have spotted this morning’s news by omission on the bBC. Systematic PSA tests for people with penises have been stopped by the NHS. Clearly this news item does not sit with the marxist narrative of the NHS/state.

    Maybe this should now be the adapted Marxist slogan: “from each according to his ability, to each according to her needs”

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  33. non-licence payer says:

    Another omission from the bBC on the emergency alert for fires was the embarrassing clusterfuck which went on for three hours. I received the message five times between 7pm and 10pm. The restaurant I was in was like an orchestra – hundreds of alerts were received. Nothing to see here then; a bit like the mass rape of girls in Britain.

    Just another symptom of a society decaying under the yoke of marxism.

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    PM Andy Burnham to announce that all naughty posts that directed at Arday will receive a minimum of 10 years in prison.

    BLM month – kneel for black people.
    Pride month – bend over for gay people.
    Arday month – all comedy and memes will be treated as hate crimes.

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Sometimes the BBC can’t help itself – Saturday afternoon it broadcasts a ‘play ‘ – propaganda piece – about the 1997 election with – I think – Cherie Blair becoming a vindictive MP and not her husband
    ….. definitely not for me …..

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  36. Sluff says:

    On Toady today a lovely piece of juxtaposition which the kidults in the editorial room somehow failed to notice, and so conveniently left for us.

    Jason Arday is dead. Cue the race baiters piling in about how he was victimised and questioned just because he was black. Rather than that he was a fraud cleverly capitalising on the propaganda and agenda of the progressive Far Left at Cambridge Uni. Somehow it is all a bit reminiscent of the Emperor’s New Clothes, where everyone follows a line except the little boy who doesn’t know what he is supposed to say, so says what he sees. The Emperor of course has no clothes.

    Minutes later, we have a scientist from the Cavendish Laboratory. Also from Cambridge. They are going to send a telescope to the far side of the Moon. Hidden away from the influence of the Earth they aim to explore the Universe without all the Earth’s background ‘noise’ and radiation, getting in the way.
    Now you may or may not approve of such activity but would I think have to admit it is cutting edge science, being investigated by clever people with a top class research pedigree.

    Readers will not find it difficult to compare and contrast the above two examples of scholarship from the same University. What could possibly cause the differences?

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  37. Sluff says:

    The son of a friend got into Cambridge several years ago now with a scholarship. They did a first degree then carried on and got a PhD. A dedicated and intelligent person.
    They stayed on and currently give tutorials and some lectures, but basically earn close to minimum wage, because of the high demand for, and low supply of lectureships.
    Is it relevant that they are a born and bred English person who is white?
    Perhaps readers can think of another person without such an academic background who did rather better.

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  38. tomo says:

    If it works out… this is going to *seriously* upset some apple carts…

    https://joannenova.com.au/2026/08/trumps-race-to-launch-nuclear-microreactors-changes-everything-an-australian-led-team-built-one-in-just-150-days/

    I suspect that the BBC already have a crack team of Greens/eco-nuts assigned to do it down?

    Looks a bit “Crocodile Dundee does nuclear” to me

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  39. vlad says:

    Good to see they’ve cancelled a blacks-only pool event in Germany.
    Now white girls can go and get molested too.
    I call that progress.

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  40. taffman says:

    I think that DEI is coming to its fitting end . We should now get back to being a meritocracy.

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    • vlad says:

      @taffman: I wish I could agree but I fear DEI still has a long way to go. It’s now in the bloodstream of all our institutions, from the cradle to the grave. It will take time to eradicate, like a chronic disease in an organism. It’s a cancer. The patient may not survive.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes – it’s a reason why DEI is strong poison now – DEIs have ascended the ‘system ‘ and are now in control – killing talent before it has a chance to improve things .

        Eg DEI Running Cambridge – DEI ran the post office – John Lewis – must be a long long list ….

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          My beef with affirmative action is that it kills people.

          This can be a locum ‘German’ doctor of Nigerian origin who gives the wrong injection to a patient who dies.

          Or it could be a fire-wimmin who is too weak to save a victims from a burning building.

          Or it could be an under-qualified cladding inspector who says the building is completely safe against fire.

          Or it could be an over promoted politician who says a vaccine is safe and effective.

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  41. pugnazious says:

    I await the ‘Jason Arday History Month’ in commemoration of a brilliant Black academic hounded to his death by racist white supremacists.

    BBC Verify, strangely missing in the furore about misinformation and lies at one of our most esteemed centres of education, will not be fact-checking the ‘history’.

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  42. vlad says:

    Naturally the BC are inconsolable over the death of the deranged bogus Cambridge ‘prof’.

    It gets front-page billing on their webshite.

    Amidst all the sobbing and hand-wringing, the clear implication is that it’s all the fault of those nasty white racists. No doubt it will be used in future to further silence any criticism of the chosen race who can do no wrong – or the chosen religion that must never be criticised. Or else!

    I propose a different conclusion: it’s all the fault of the sickening white Karens at Cambridge who over-promoted an obvious fraud and mentally deranged fantasist.
    (Just to meet their virtue-signalling DEI quotas.)

    And of the BBC who jumped on the woke bandwagon with gay abandon, and did zero fact-checking of the lunatic.

    Did you see the glee with which that female Cambridge prof drooled over the new appointee in the BBC doco? The adoring, lingering close-up shot of their holding hands, black on white… so symbolic, so woke, so BBC, so… nauseating. It was borderline sexual and positively obscene. Incidentally, greater minds than mine have pointed out the sexual component in the adoration of liberal women for all things black. Mmm, a bit of rough.

    It’s almost racist.

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    • taffman says:

      Has this brought the credibility and standing of Cambridge ‘yoonie’ down ?

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      • vlad says:

        In a sane world, it should. In our clown world, it won’t.
        The academics, the media and the politicians will draw all the wrong conclusions and double down on woke lunacy till this country is destroyed.
        At 5 to midnight, people might wake up to the madness, but too late. Much, much too late.
        Bong… bong… bong…

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      • Guest Who says:

        Since Lammy, Abbott….?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Story of the academic who exposed Arday several years back and was sacked for doing so.

      The complaints followed a blog post in which Cofnas advanced what he calls “race realism”, arguing that under a true meritocracy black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”. Harvard faculty, he wrote, “would be recruited from the best of the best students, which means the number of black professors would approach zero per cent”.

      https://afcomm.org.uk/2025/10/03/cambridge-clears-academic-in-race-row-citing-new-free-speech-protections/

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  43. harry142857 says:

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Arday Context

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  45. tomo says:

    I see the BBC has a fresh page up about Arday – An-deh opines (in later revision) and more people contacted for comment include the awful (imho) Paul Boeteng of all people and there is an unsubstantiated claim that Arday had been banned from travel to the USA (Trump!!)

    The kitchen sink collection even includes Borat’s cousin.

    They seem to have dropped the headline “Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found dead”

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    Tomo – im guessing the former university picked up the tab for the hired shysters …

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    • tomo says:

      Carter-Ruck, a while back were offering something akin to no win, no fee + low cost letter to nettle + gauge the opposition (bait in the trap)

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  47. Northern Voter says:

    I must say that with all the hysteria in the msm, why has no one asked the question “ if Ourday will come, didn’t speak till he was twelve (allegedly) and couldn’t read nor write till he was eighteen, how the f**k did he pass all the exams to gain all the certificates, diplomas and degrees he said he had?

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  48. Foscari says:

    Firstly let me say that I am so sorry that
    Jason Arday commited suicide . May he rest in peace.
    However the writing was on the wall for poor Jason.
    For like those with which used to be called ” Gender
    Dysphoria” And alas far too many of these mentally ill
    folk finish up committing suicide. Jason suffered what mike
    be called ” Academic Dysphoria” He didn’t want to change
    sex. He wanted to become an academic professor without
    the right genuine qualifications..
    However because of the ultra woke society we now live in.
    He was helped by those in who could imply he had the right
    ” qualifications”to go into , the analogy of a women’s changing room.
    And join the ” Kings new clothes” brigade.
    To be honest it wouldn’t of surprised me if he wasn’t brought
    down. And only because of the other mad ” Walter Mitty”
    shenanigans. He could of finished up being Director General
    of the BBC, Or Chairman of Barclays Bank.
    And this would never of been his fault. I reiterate I have
    utter sympathy for him. BUT for Christ’s sake . And I am not a
    psychiatrist . Didn’t any genuine eminent psychiatrist or
    psychologist know that this suicide was likely?
    .

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    • Northern Voter says:

      Of course they knew, it just didn’t fit in their monoscopic view. The left wokey people will always skew their output to their way of thinking. If you don’t agree or toe the line tough sh1t.

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    “In 2020, Mike Adams committed suicide after being canceled and losing his job as a professor.
    Adams was never dishonest. All he did was say things like “rioters are thugs” and “women’s studies aren’t essential”.
    Even in death, the media ran awful headlines like this.”

    https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/2088378259427803352

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