Tricia Paget 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
@tricia-mn.bsky.social
Europhile. Interested in books, Shakespeare, gardening, daily walks, occasional language learning .
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
Terry Watkins@gerrygow.bsky.social · 10h agoThe alternative to this is people lying with impunity, with the media knowingly covering it up. It's an awful story. And the media will get a lot of the blame. But those who perpetuated the lies and shielded Arday from facing up to them deserve more of it.
You told everyone it’s an emergency when you used the emergency broadcast system; and now you are telling people to stop using the emergency phone number to tell you about the emergency because it’s not an emergency. Great job everyone.
Left Outside@leftoutside.bsky.social · 8h agoToilet Stasi ✅ BBQ Police ✅ What next?
Jason Arday found dead. The press in this country is an unstoppable monster.
Prof Nisreen Alwan@nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 6d agoThere’s no doubt this wouldn’t be the case if he wasn’t black. The aim of such wide coverage is to push minorities into defensive positioning about their deservedness of being treated fairly and equally.
Reminder the actual reasons why Arday would have had to resign - plagiarism, and falsifying quotes - are both things Boris Johnson has done.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d agoIt really is quite something to come out with this stuff when your party made both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss Prime Minister.
Agree and *definitely* not an inquiry into the hiring procedure, implying there was negligence involved, for every case of academic misconduct. (Pretty clear what the insidious motivation for that is here...) On which note bsky.app/profile/adsq...
Adam Squires@adsquires.bsky.social · 6d agoReminder the actual reasons why Arday would have had to resign - plagiarism, and falsifying quotes - are both things Boris Johnson has done.
fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news
There’s no doubt this wouldn’t be the case if he wasn’t black. The aim of such wide coverage is to push minorities into defensive positioning about their deservedness of being treated fairly and equally.
Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · last wk.fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news
White Professor. Still at Cambridge. Still alive. "...complaint of plagiarism had been upheld by a university tribunal...the professor would keep his job...tribunal ruled that the offence was the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate." www.varsity.co.uk/news/26105 @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Stewart Lee knows which way is up. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: We’re banning disposable barbecues, but we’re still drilling for oil? We really are cooked
Unfortunately, the climate crisis requires concerted, difficult opposition to Trump and the fossil fuel industry, not just restrictions on tinfoil grills
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Jadon Arday found dead. I hope all those racist bastards are happy with themselves for driving a young black man to his death. You essentially achieved an indirect lynching. God, I fucking hate what this country is becoming. news.sky.com/story/jason-...
Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row
A former University of Cambridge professor who resigned following accusations of plagiarism has been found dead.
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"He is dead," a sentence that, once true, stays true forever. The relentless harassment Jason Arday endured before his passing is a profound shame on those who hounded him. This was never just academic discourse; it was targeted cruelty against a black, neurodivergent man.
Labour’s manifesto promised 'a mutual recognition agreement for professional qualifications’ with the EU Not happened Here, @UKandEU 's Joël Reland explains why It wld require (EEA or Swiss-style) participation in single market [or rejoining EU] Time for ambition... ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/a...
Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications (MRPQs) - UK in a changing Europe
Labour’s election manifesto promised a ‘mutual recognition agreement for professional qualifications’. What does this mean, and what affect might it have on UK-EU trade?
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Agree with all of this. But we also shouldn’t erase race out of the story. Race may not have an explanatory factor in terms of what happened at Cambridge but it doesn’t mean it was irrelevant in terms of the tragic outcome.
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.
My local Reform council with Johnathan Gullis as leader has cancelled all net zero initiatives His first step to cancel new electric refuse lorries and replace them with diesels.
There are no NEW barriers There are existing rules that now apply to UK after we chose to leave Continuously claiming there are new barriers and rules erected by Europe to harm us is not going to help and campaign to join again You should know better
European Movement UK@europeanmovement.co.uk · 16h agoAva-Santina Evans is right: we can’t talk about the crisis facing the UK's nightlife without talking about Brexit. From staffing shortages at home to new barriers for artists touring Europe, Brexit is making it harder for our night time economy to thrive.
It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes
The Clacton byelection cost taxpayers a quarter of a million pounds. That is the cost of employing six NHS nurses for a year. Put that on the side of a bus.
Its getting good. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
The Largest Data Center In California Has Been Denied Water For Cooling — Now It's Suing A Public Agency
A developer wants to combine water rights from several plots of farmland to help cool a data center. Regulators said no, and now the developer is suing.
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worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem
Reform UK people moaning on the BBC about the BBC ganging up against them should remember that Farage has been on BBCs Question Time more than any other MP.
While it’s been discomforting in south of England in France the summer has been on another level, it still goes on fiercely. This afternoon in mid August #Paris touched 40C the summer is beyond all comprehension. (1/2)
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
If @andyburnham.bsky.social were Prime Minister during the Blitz: "There is an urgent problem of bombs falling on London. They appear to be coming out of the sky. We convened a COBRA meeting to discuss it. The root causes of this problem are not something I am prepared to discuss." #ClimateEmergency
Another few years like this and “some things” will (have to) change .
