The reason Arday wasn't such a big deal on this site as it was on X is that a lot more people here are happy with academics lying and plagiarising and getting the cops in to suppress legitimate journalistic inquiry

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 4h ago

So what we have is a classic case of media boom and bust, a kind of Fyre Festival built around media hype, the initial atmosphere of BLM, and the ensuing atmosphere of reaction that meant the scandal was elevated to the extent that it was by legacy media and X.

Hands up if you just knew Polanksi was going to wade in on this one and stick up for the guy jailed for a prolonged campaign of antisemitic harassment against a Jewish MP

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 12h ago

Why are you commenting if you don’t know the specifics of the case!!!!!

A very good round-up of the lies Jason Arday has been telling and the people who have been taken in by them across academia, the media, and even the Met Police freebeacon.com/campus/star-...

Star Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Lied for Years About Raising Millions for Charity: Simon & Schuster Scrubbed Financial Details From His New Memoir and Falsehoods From His Bio

The celebrity Cambridge education professor Jason Arday—whose rags-to-riches memoir from Simon & Schuster lands August 11—has repeatedly lied about his charitable fundraising prowess, according to 16 ...

freebeacon.com

It's bizarre that you can be rehabilitated for being an ex-Nazi with an appalling criminal record, but not for thinking the 2050 net zero target put in law by a previous Tory govt is worth aiming for. This is the biggest excursion from common sense imaginable.

Actually 2 scandals here - feeding a woman dog food, and then PCC investigating so incompetently that an open-and-shut case had to be taken to the Ombudsman by the family

Hampshire@hampshireuk.bsky.social · 18h ago

Care worker mistakenly fed woman dog food - report #Hampshire #BBCNews

Leftist polling analysis: "AfD are on 19% in Germany, Hitler is coming back!" "Conservatives are on 20% in the UK, they are finished!"

Surprised that the Good Law Project have left up a petition about Jason Arday now that he has admitted plagiarism and appears to be a narcissistic fantasist. There now should a be a full inquiry into how this mess was allowed go develop by Cambridge.

Burnham is desperate to win some of the antisemite vote back from the Greens

Diane Abbott readmitted into Labour Party after suspension

The long-serving MP apologises for past comments and says she has been issued with a "formal warning".

bbc.co.uk

This is madness. There isn't anything that says to the world "British scientific excellence" in quite the way Jodrell Bank does. It's a collossal symbol of British power. But it's also a great opportunity to sponsor/embarrass our supposedly "northern" PM www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk

Ever read a take so stupid that you feel like it's just punched you in the face?

Seen that opinion poll in which millionaires say they're in favour of a wealth tax on millionaires? It's an absolute masterclass in how to get the polling result that you want. And the detail shows the opposite of what we're told it shows. Thread:

Guy who quit MoD because the Chancellor wouldn't fund defence is now Chancellor and lying convicted fraudster put in at Duchy of Lancaster. What a government!

PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 2w ago

Andy Burnham has appointed Yvette Cooper as Health Secretary and Pat McFadden will remain as Work and Pensions Secretary

It was on this day in 1976 that the 150 person capacity Lesser Free Trade hall had around 200,000 people from the Manchester area watching The Sex Pistols.

Burnham government off to a flyer. Sadiq Khan always believed in abolishing the House of Lords until he got a peerage

Whenever you see "gender critical" in quotes like this it means the people being described are "just women"

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 3w ago

Kerry Moscogiuri, the head of Amnesty International UK, should “seriously consider her position” after a second report by the charity unearthed by The Times revealed that “gender-critical” feminists were presented as anti-rights

I look at a lot of the posts here about Ann Widdecombe and I recall that many of you came here because this place was somehow morally superior to Twitter

"No drama queens" but also "If you don't like it, join the Lib Dems". Why does Kemi think we lost Winchester and Chichester? Her job was to reunite the Conservative family but it feels like she's put the kids up for adoption

"In what must rank as one of the most self-pitying, self-obsessed pieces of political rhetoric we’ve heard from a politician since Boris Johnson’s myriad attempts to justify himself back in 2022, Nigel Farage surprised absolutely no-one..." Me for @uk.theconversation.com this arvo.

Why Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP, only to stand again – expert analysis

Nigel Farage is triggering a by-election, appearing to be pitting people against ‘the establishment’.

theconversation.com

All that build up, and then that was all it was. The political equivalent of the second Stone Roses album

Lisa Nandy flounces of Twitter because Musk. Andy Burnham goes to Reddit for a Q&A, the hotbed of revenge porn and AI sexual fakes. What a country we are.

Absolutely moronic and a terrible sign of things to come if true.

This is about as good as life gets if you flounced off Twitter. Massive win. Bigger than the World Cup

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh, hello.

Relaxed about Burnham wanting to live in Manchester. He should reinstate HS2 in full to facilitate trips to London.

The reverse is most likely true and panels will be stuffed with "community leaders" and others of that kind who have led to the catastrophe we have seen in many towns and cities, particularly in Burnham's supposed "northern stronghold"

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · last mo.

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

"People I like are allowed to break the law". This is a classic Maughamism.

15 years for raping a kid and expects to be considered "culturally acceptable". Death penalty for these animals www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Absolute Labour chaos www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The dirty tricks against journalists, the runaway borrowing, the choice of welfare over defence, the education crisis, the lies about NHS waiting lists, paying off pervs with peerages. What a legacy!

This should be the end of career for a lot of the commentariat who cheered this lying charlatan on when they should have seen in Opposition how incompetent Starmer is. Never thought there would be a worse PM than Anthony Eden

Look forward to the general election which will follow this, in accordance with Labour Party social media 2016-22

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

Starmer on brink of quitting as UK prime minister ft.trib.al/MkVEXBz