India is the ultimate manifestation of the tragedy of the commons. One and a half billion people living in a pulsating, ever-growing Petri dish of near-zero social trust, in which preemptive exploitation becomes the norm: “If I don’t take the free resource now, someone else will, so I might as well take it”.
There is an anti-Cofnas hate rally in Trafalgar Square with ~15,000 attendees. If I were in London there is a real possibility that I would be murdered.
1000s of academics & journalists knew the truth about Jason Arday for more than a year. Now you know why no one said anything.
The Great Replacement Theory is an insane conspiracy theory that you can see before your eyes when you walk down your high street or examine government statistics, which are provided in a graph in this article denouncing this theory.
There are plenty of scholars with brilliant, original, non-plagiarised PhDs who’ll never get a junior academic job, let alone a Cambridge professorship. That’s why the Arday case matters.
@AHewitt973255@Harry_pitt Naturally. The people enabling his fantasies will blame the people outraged at what he got away with. They will double down at a chance to save face, and they genuinely think they'll get away with it.
@Harry_pitt The very people that should be reeling from their own institutional incompetence will now spin this into ritual shame aimed at the people who are rightfully outraged at what Arday got away with.
Everyone involved in this abominable affair ought to feel thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
Will anyone within academia learn anything?
Or will they pivot to blaming those of us in favour of the very standards that would have prevented this in the first place?
Context: steam refunded a users BF6 game, after EA removed all the game modes he liked and were the reason he bought the game.
The "dangerous precedent" is holding companies accountable for fucking their fans without consent.
As Defence Secretary you introduced and oversaw the ARAP scheme that relocated thousands of Afghans to the UK. The February 2022 data breach exposing the personal details of nearly 19,000 ARAP applicants occurred under your watch. When the breach was discovered in August 2023 you directed officials to apply for a court injunction to prevent public disclosure, enabling further secret relocations under the Afghanistan Response Route to proceed without scrutiny. The High Court then converted your application into a super-injunction.