"We dropped the ball on that one."
Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologises for investigating the journalist who tried to expose allegations of plagiarism against ex-Cambridge professor Jason Arday.
Perhaps the most disturbing element in the fantasy world of (ex)-Professor Jason Arday is not his proclivity to embellish his achievements (or lack thereof) in absurd ways that were easily exposed or Cambridge University’s facile complicity in his whole scam but that a reporter at Times Higher Education, who was looking into anomalies in Mr Arday’s dodgy CV, was subjected to a four-month police investigation for allegedly harassing him. The police need to be held to account for this abuse of police power to thwart a journalist from doing his job.
Absolutely thrilled the be appointed Education Secretary.
For me there’s no more important job for any government than making sure young people have the best education, the best opportunities and the best future they can.
Lots to do and I look forward to getting started.
It must have been completely obvious to police, immediately, that Ann Widdecombe had been brutally murdered. The misinformation that followed, over several days, is inexplicable.
By 2031 the average UK household will be paying £12,266 a year to fund the welfare state. A radical overhaul of our welfare system should be number one priority for any incoming Prime Minister. Not sustainable and not fair
This is shocking.
At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."
Shit show of an end. It should have been 1-2 laps of pure racing. Instead we got a damp squib. And the @fia wonder why people struggle with F1 as a spectator sport #BritishGP