Joanna Williams
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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The Jason Arday cover-up at Cambridge (opens the original)
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The inquiry will ignore how the plagiarist professor was promoted well beyond his abilities. Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Has the University of Cambridge abandoned its investigation into the hiring of Jason Arday? This summer, following Arday’s tragic suicide and amid an urgent sense that there were lessons to be learnt, Cambridge promised an independent review into all aspects of its ‘decision-making and actions’ – including how an academic who was so manifestly un
Why the silence over Ceuta’s sexual-abuse crisis? (opens the original)
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Women and girls are paying the price for Europe’s open borders. Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. It has been almost three weeks since more than 72,000 migrants invaded Ceuta. Since then, the Spanish government has tried to reassure the world that most of those who entered the territory illegally have now returned to Morocco and order has been restored. But as growing reports of women and girls being sexually assaulted make clear, this is far from the case. An estimated
The Cambridge don who once had links to an Islamist terror group (opens the original)
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Farah Ahmed's anti-Western bigotry and historical support for Hizb ut-Tahrir are more troubling than Jason Arday’s tall tales. Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Think Jason Arday’s appointment was a stain on the University of Cambridge? Meet Farah Ahmed, Arday’s colleague in the faculty of education until his resignation last week. Now an assistant research professor, Ahmed once supported the now-proscribed Islamist terror group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and remains an outspoken c
Lucy Powell wants our kids to be as ignorant as she is (opens the original)
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Labour’s assault on educational standards and academic knowledge will only entrench social inequality. Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Lucy Powell is taking a wrecking ball to England’s schools. Labour’s newly appointed education secretary is determined to erode academic standards and diminish the status of traditional subjects, in order to turn schools into employability factories where children are made workplace-ready. She must be stopped. Writing in The Times on Mo
Woke privilege still reigns at Cambridge University (opens the original)
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The fawning over Jason Arday reveals how DEI has warped even our most august institutions. Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Picture a professor at the University of Cambridge, and an august scholar who has spent decades in a library or a laboratory comes to mind. To achieve this feat aged just 37 would be remarkable. To do so despite being born to immigrant parents and having grown up on a council estate, being diagnosed with autism and unable to speak until the age of
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