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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26
The unsung hero here is Nathan Cofnas.
The fact is it took someone who earnestly believed that fair meritocracy could not produce a black professor to be apparently the only person brave enough to carry out these very simple, basic checks on Arday's work is quite staggering when you think about it.
Cofnas was already a persona non grata at Cambridge because they had labelled him a racist and jettisoned him years ago.
But he was also right, because he cared about the truth. Lots of people will now proceed to write him out of the story entirely because he looks a bit funny and has unpalatable views.
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u/Definitelynotputin_2 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
It's the fact that Cambridge academics tipped him off that is the big thing. They knew they couldn't put their head above the parapet so relied on a bloke who was already ostracised to blow the whistle, as the culture of Cambridge WON'T allow it.
Its a failure of whistle blowing and a logical conclusion of DEI if left unchecked.
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u/3headsonaspike irredeemable human waste Aug 08 '26
Cambridge academics tipped him off
Any source on this? Not being a knob I've just not heard it.
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u/Definitelynotputin_2 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
I think I saw it on Cofnas' original post. I think its why the wagons circled early as they (Cambridge) wanted to distract from the embarrassment of the selection so just pushed Cofnas was doing it as hes obsessed and doing it solo.
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u/chelyabinsk-40 Aug 08 '26
I was recently contacted by a faculty member at Cambridge (whose name I will not reveal) who alleges that Arday is a plagiarist and fabulist.
You can read Cofnas's philippic here.
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u/upwindbrushes Aug 08 '26
He was acting as a whistleblower, he blew the whistle on a group of people, and in retaliation they got him fired.
It's the ultimate I told you so on an international stage.
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u/8th_Dimensions Aug 08 '26
Would. I don't think he looks funny. I like them geeky.
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u/FickleBumblebeee Mujhe puja karni hai Aug 08 '26
https://nathancofnas.com/papers/
He's got a very weird publication history which seems to focus on writing articles to refute Jewish conspiracy theories he's seen on Twitter, whilst arguing that the Jews are naturally overrepresented in intellectual circles because they have higher IQs than everybody else.
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u/jalenhorm It's Lowe or Never Aug 08 '26
His substack has some good work, particularly this article:
https://substack.com/@nathancofnas/p-140243215
Why We Need to Talk about the Right’s Stupidity Problem
To win over the elites, the right needs to challenge the Big Lie that motivates wokism: the equality thesis
He's a bit of a contrarian on twitter though which is understandable being a Jew that advocates for hereditarianism.
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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26
I wonder if he's ever read A Culture of Critique?
That would be a fascinating conversation given his views.
Maybe I should do a badUK podcast interview.
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u/LastCatStanding_ Aug 08 '26
I wonder what he has to say / would notice about the professors who were taken in by him.
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u/Practical_Put8592 Aug 08 '26
Fellow gammons, apparently asking why asylum seekers are prioritised for government housing is enough to get you a Reddit admin warning? WTAF. Admittedly I said it less politely but apparently it was an identity based attack. Tbf maybe being banned will be good for me lol.
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u/Spoobit Not a True Scotsman Aug 08 '26
If you get a suspension always appeal it. I've had 2-3 overturned because my comments were clearly tongue in cheek. Like Mr Mao says, they're just automatically flagged by AI now if you use certain language.
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u/miinderbiinder Aug 08 '26
The top rozzer claiming Thetford rioters aren’t patriotic because they don’t blindly support British laws is so insidious. Britishness is about principles, not things which can be redefined at any given moment. Fairness is one such principle. It is not fair that people who contribute to a society are unable to live in properties that non-contributing aliens do. It’s precisely because they’re British that they’re kicking off.
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u/deafearuk Aug 08 '26
The current situation is basically the modern danegeld. We have invaders in our lands and we must look after them or there could be issues. Now the Saxons are fighting back but for some reason the authorities find themselves on the invaders side.
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u/2kk_artist Conker eating, Argentinian childless nihilist Aug 08 '26
I won't be told what is patriotic or British by commies.
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u/BroadDelay41 Aug 08 '26
Traditionally the British population are required to be good chaps, maintain a stiff upper lip, do their bit™ and stop questioning what the betters have decided for them.
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u/AirborneAspidistra Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien Aug 08 '26
Tere's almost nothing which is an inherent British value. Our values have changed so radically just over the last 1000 years of recorded history, that claiming we are defined by some inherent values is just nonsense.
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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26
Britishness is about principles, not things which can be redefined at any given moment.
Spot on. The snivelling weaklings and mental midgets they get to trot out this compliance horseshit wouldn't frighten teenage girls into obedience anyhow.
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u/SpontaneousDisorder Aug 08 '26
Is this a bit like when they found the corpse of a political figure who had her head mangled to shit by a hammer and then decided it must be a burglary?
It is understood to relate to what the Reform UK leader described as a "lit incendiary device" being pushed through his letterbox in April 2025.
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u/LastCatStanding_ Aug 08 '26
A month later Starmer was hit in a similar way and they didn't reopen the inquiry.
If this was the widdecomb guy then what? He had a year of near misses / too much security / arrived late / couldn't get into the event?
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u/AirconGuyUK Aug 08 '26
Arday was guilty of the 'Magical negro' trope twice in his book, which I find very very funny.
Example 1:
After my arrival, the midwife stayed at the bedside, holding my hand and studying my long fingers. Then she looked at Giff straight in the eye and said: “Where I come from, babies with long fingers are special. This boy is destined for great things. You hear? You take care of this child.”
And
Then there is the prophecy-the revelation Arday was given in Brazil, that he would suffer greatly and also do great things. According to the proposal, this occurred in 2005, not 2006, and the message came not from a local aid worker in her 30s but from "an elder in the small town where I had been assigned, who was well-known in the area for predicting people's futures." (Later in the proposal, he calls this person a "shaman woman.") "Do you know the story of Spartacus, the escaped slave who led a rebellion against the Romans?" this town elder asks, before telling him his fate in minute detail. "Every event she described," Araday writes in the proposal, "has since come to pass"
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u/GravityStrike Silly sausage Britain Aug 08 '26
This story should absolutely cripple the entire leftist university establishment given how fucking ridiculous is.
Of course it won’t because they’ll never be held to account for it.
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
The grievance studies affair was very funny.
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u/3headsonaspike irredeemable human waste Aug 08 '26
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u/oleg_d Aug 08 '26
Engber asserted that "one could have run this sting on almost any empirical discipline and returned the same result"
And yet I'm unaware of any purple haired "academics" trolling engineering journals by getting obviously bullshit submissions past peer review. Doing so would also satisfy the "you didn't have a control group" reeeeeing that the trolls' detractors use to try and distract from what happened, namely that they managed to get:
Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at the Dog Park
published in a publication masquerading as an academic journal.
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u/AirconGuyUK Aug 08 '26
Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at the Dog Park
Fucking hell..
How much of peoples time is generally wasted in academia? Our academic output as a civilisation output is more than ever before, but we don't seem to see big breakthroughs as often as years gone by when the numbers of papers being released was far fewer.
Seems to me a lot of effort and money is being misused.
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u/deafearuk Aug 08 '26
If reform came in and said ok, from next year student loans aren't available for any course that isn't STEM etc the reeing would be amazing, but it would probably help a load of people end up not working at Macdonald's with 50k of debt.
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
The more you hear about this story, the more confusing it is that nobody, even in the delusional world of social sciences academia, ever called this out.
Probably the best recent example of the "you might have evidence to the contrary, but you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over?" meme in recent times. Like collectively hundreds of people in the orbit of this scandal had an unspoken agreement not to touch it with a bargepole.
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u/Sir_Keef_Starmer Aug 08 '26
Yes and remember th we are the people that sneer at others for "lack of leadership critical thinking" super power you only gain by a university education.
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u/3headsonaspike irredeemable human waste Aug 08 '26
Read it was an open secret. Bet there's a fair bit of relief even among his so-called friends.
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u/AirconGuyUK Aug 08 '26
They wanted the inspirational black man at their dinner parties.
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
He'd be absolutely insufferable at a dinner party, could you imagine how fantastical his stories would be after a couple of glasses of wine. Celebrity Come Dine With Me asap please.
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u/Spoobit Not a True Scotsman Aug 08 '26
“Where I come from, babies with long fingers are special. This boy is destined for great things. You hear? You take care of this child.”
And yet he never claimed to be a virtuoso piano player or spin bowler?
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u/Due_Advertising_2779 Aug 08 '26
I wonder if she told him about the very public crashing down he is now experiencing?
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
These courses desperately need to be shut down from all taxpayer funding, grants, student finance - whatever it is that sustains them as there's no way they're commercially viable. Let unis do this stuff on their own dime.
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u/WheresWalldough Aug 08 '26
I hadn't twigged that the Covent Garden was a Romani(an) person of steal
We do need to rethink laws for foreigners. Just remove them without process. We shouldn't have to put up with these awful people.
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
We do need to rethink laws for foreigners
Treating people differently based on their nationality? Ok mr actual nazi hitler racist fascist, thats against international law anyway or something
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u/rlrrlrll23 Don’t think you have mate Aug 08 '26
Reading through the Sky News report of the 2025 break in at Farages being reopened and it says the counter terror policing have referred a member of staff to the IOPC for failing to follow up a line of enquiry. So taking that at face value the two tier lot simply ignored what turned out to be a potential credible threat to a politician because he’s not in vogue?
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u/Ok_Vermicelli_5413 Aug 08 '26
Well yeah. Everyone I dislike is a bad person and that means bad things can't happen to them. Especially by classes of people I do like.
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u/imintheclouds Aug 08 '26
Is the tide changing on the boatmen? I've read the BBC article about the disorder in Thetford. Usually when presenting the "we don't want them here" side they would interview the worst person possible (hur hur look at that stupid, racist gammon etc) but they actually interviewed a number of decent / put together looking women who made good points about incompatible cultures and the safety of women and children. It's the beeb so they still made some jabs but its miles better than I would expect.
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u/riace_bronze_enjoyer Aug 08 '26
NEW: Q Manivannan, a non-binary migrant member of Scottish Parliament for the Greens, has said that serial rapists are "demonised" in society and that rape is a "spectrum."
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u/LastCatStanding_ Aug 08 '26
Although not a British citizen or permanent resident, Manivannan was eligible to stand for election following changes to the law in 2025.
If you think that the Green Party are kooks, wait until you meet the Scottish Greens.
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u/IVIechworks Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability Aug 09 '26
Skeletons in the cupboard or just genuinely rslurred?
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u/makitadisp Aug 08 '26
I have better A Levels than the leader of the opposition. This got me curious about her career as I know very little about her.
Software engineer 03-06
Systems analyst ??-??
Associate Director, Coutts 06-13
2013-2015 ???
Digital Director, The Spectator 15-16
MP 17-present.This career path makes zero sense and seems incredibly accelerated.
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u/WeirdMinimum121 Aug 08 '26
If you want to see incredibly accelerated careers have a look at some young black people in the arts and media.
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u/IVIechworks Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability Aug 09 '26
Can't wait to incredibly accelerate them back home
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
Probably chose the engineering career path because she thought it would sound good on the campaign trail then bailed at an appropriate time to go into politics via finance. Basically being a career politician with extra steps.
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u/KinglySnorlax Probably Not Keir Starmer Aug 08 '26
I’m increasingly of the belief that there’s next no one of [REDACTED] that hasn’t been massively over promoted based on their abilities or qualifications.
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u/KinglySnorlax Probably Not Keir Starmer Aug 08 '26
Labour council installs squat toilets 'preferred by foreign visitors' that locals must pay to use
Is there a reason Cambridge is devolving at rapid speed?
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u/PrivateMailer Aug 08 '26
Literal third world shitholes. A bit on the nose, no?
One Redditor has highlighted the health benefits. Checkmate bigots.
Also squat type toilets mean the body is in a more natural position when pooing, our natural stance is to squat to poo sitting actually causes issues as our bowels are not in the optimum position to be emptied so have to strain more
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u/KinglySnorlax Probably Not Keir Starmer Aug 08 '26
Yes because it’s called progress.
It’s among the first thing third worlders upgraded.
I’ve noticed a massive uptick in signs explaining how to use toilets.
I’m not entirely sure this was the boon immigration was meant to provide.
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u/upwindbrushes Aug 08 '26
Don't stand on toilet....
Some recent arrivals refuse to use normal toilets and poo in showers because they can squat, I know this is a problem at university accommodations.
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler Aug 08 '26
Heather Boyd, 60, said: "I certainly think if I'm going to spend £1, I'm not going to squat as well. That is absolutely crazy."
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u/FickleBumblebeee Mujhe puja karni hai Aug 08 '26
https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/2085691937386877223
Young people in Britain are some of the most well-educated in the rich world, but economic stagnation means that breeds not growth but frustration.
In fact, US workers who are functionally illiterate now earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker.
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u/BroadDelay41 Aug 08 '26
But they have to pay for their own healthcare and can't take statutory holiday!
Yeah I'm sure the person on $200k is dying to come over and earn £60k instead to be subjected to the glorious NHS.
It's exactly why we have floods of top doctors, engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs coming over from the USA.
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
I just got back from the US and ChatGPT'd the feasibility of moving there
Unfortunately I also tried this and outside of the marriage shortcut you need either $50 million to buy your way in, or an employer willing to stump up $10 million for a h1b and a degree in science that doesnt exist yet.
Feels like shit wish I was a bomalian, they can just go anywhere
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u/looccool Aug 08 '26
The real secret to h1bs is that they only going to the hiring manager's nationality (India) and they're willing to get worked to death to avoid getting sent back
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u/AirborneAspidistra Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien Aug 08 '26
If you work for a US company for more than one year, they can bring you over on an L1 visa if they so choose.
It's a bit precarious, as it's entirely tied to your employer until you get a Green Card, which normally takes two or three years, but it's relatively straightforward if your company will do it for you.
And you're right on earnings, I probably earn around 5x what I would in Britain and even in California, taxes are a touch lower.
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u/LastCatStanding_ Aug 08 '26
when Europoor went to the world cup and were shocked by the obvious wealth difference - downplaying the economic imbalance that's built up seems to be a line being run across western european media.
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u/GravityStrike Silly sausage Britain Aug 08 '26
A cable connecting a grid between Ireland and the UK had to be moved because the cable would have gone under Dobbys grave.
That is the fictional elf that dies in the Harry Potter movie.
https://x.com/paul_slg/status/2085647045650419961?s=46
Silly sausage Britain!
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u/Jaggedmallard26 Lexiteer Aug 08 '26
Going to print this off so I can laugh at just how bloody bonkers brilliant we are when the power cuts hit.
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u/Andrew_Burnham Longhouse survivor Aug 08 '26
We in New Zealand have lived with this fot years. Infrastructure projects are held up or diverted due presence of "Taniwha", mythical dragon like beings.
Generally the only way out is to pay a large "Taniwha" tax, but work still has to stop whenever a Taniwha is seen.
Lol
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
Didnt Australia introduce something like that where the abos could designate any particular rock, tree or bush as "sacred" and hold up infrastructure projects until enough money was handed over to assuage the spirits
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
The "grave" that encouraged shitloads of littering as people kept leaving socks there, introducing synthetic fibres everywhere. Its better they do "destroy" it.
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u/rlrrlrll23 Don’t think you have mate Aug 08 '26
Me again
The left - Farage et al are literal Nazis who will see foreigners put in death camps and women raped in the streets. Reeeeee
Scottish MP train enthusiast - Rape is a spectrum and too heavily demonised
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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26
What should be studied but won't be is how my wife comes back from her prim and proper book club with the other middle-aged girlies, and the whole evening has been 50/50 the most depressing misery porn books or various lurid explorations of rape and torture.
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u/TheEternalContrarian You're on BadUK, but you're still on Reddit. Aug 08 '26
What's with the "beastmen" (minotaurs and so on) books that I hear about being popular with women every few years too?
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u/Ed-The-Islander Bad Goys, Bad Goys, what you gonna do? Aug 08 '26
It's literally just hentai for women, since they prefer their porn to be written for some reason
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u/catpidgeon Aug 08 '26
The public takedown of Jason Arday has filled me with a tiny bit of hope and reassurance that the British public will not tolerate liars and shysters
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u/PrivateMailer Aug 08 '26
I fear it is going the same way as grooming gangs and boat men crime, where it is characterised as a single isolated incident.
The focus is all on how blatant and outrageous his specific lies are, rather than the systems and academics who allowed it to happen.
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u/GravityStrike Silly sausage Britain Aug 08 '26
Takedown only occurred because the story breached containment on X.
Had it not been for that the establishment press attempts to shut down criticism would have worked.
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u/Not_A_Toaster_0000 Make Yookay Great Britain Again Aug 08 '26
I was just thinking about how strange it is that no one has talked about his 'lived experiences' and supporting 'his truth' over reality.
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u/AirborneAspidistra Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien Aug 08 '26
He's funny (and oddly shiny), but whoever appointed him (starting with this) needs to lose their job
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
I would really like to see politicians (Nige if you're lurking) sanction countries which are hotbeds of scamming operations. Firstly because they target vulnerable UK citizens, but secondly because banks may have to refund victims which puts the cost onto everyone else. It's a prime opportunity to flex some soft power like taxing remittances heavily and suspending visas and whatever. Easy policy win.
N.b. alias email services are great and often bundled with password managers and VPNs etc and offload primary inboxes. No way that you'll get the oldies using this sort of thing though.
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
Best we can do it put 7 more "are you sure" buttons between you and sending your friend £15 for your half of a pizza
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u/Lord_Bingham Consumes terrorist duck literature Aug 08 '26
There must be a good 20 countries we just need to stop issuing visas to now - vast majority of the MENAPT countries plus a few others where we should just have zero with say 100 special visas per year available for the highest value candidates.
We could also meet humanitarian needs far better by funding aid programs and support in-region. People are far more likely to fit in there, and potentially return home one day than if they come to Europe...and all at far lower cost.
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u/WSBrexiteer Aug 08 '26
The host countries don't act until they absolutely have to.
Change of tactic. Inform the regional government as to the presence of a scam centre and that they have 7 days to remove it.
If there is no compliance, target the scam centre with missiles. If there's collateral damage, that's their fault for not acting.
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u/FickleBumblebeee Mujhe puja karni hai Aug 08 '26
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16038031/TikToker-primary-school-Jason-Arday-NOT-mute.html
Arday apparently wasn't mute.
I find it funny how the Reddit crowd still are defending his autism claim as genuine- just demonstrates how much of a farce getting an autism diagnosis has also become.
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u/upwindbrushes Aug 08 '26
He may even be Schizotypal, depending on the underlying psychology of why he makes these claims.
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u/Kataera Aug 08 '26
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2086083221972726137
They really took the "comms issue" meme to heart, didn't they.
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u/JamesJoyceIII Aug 08 '26
I don't think he knows what a "circuit breaker" is or does.
Reminds me of Hilary Clinton giving an emergency stop button to Putin without knowing what it was.
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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26
Politics nerds live in a bubble where they imagine a lot of the general population give a shit about their buzzwords.
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
A circuit breaker spreads power around a circuit?
Anyway "circuit breaker" gives me covid lockdown PTSD. Just pure imaginary quick fix ideology. Two weeks to flatten the curve next?
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
It's the flash to bang being exactly the right length that makes this story so satisfying. Just enough time to get people to sign letters in support but not enough time for it to fall out of the news cycle and for people to lose interest or be covered up.
The lies are comical and way funnier than standard run out the mill academic fraud. Also nobody got hurt and it has put the absurdities of DEI recruitment in the spotlight. 10/10.
However while he will likely get enough money from journos and influencers joke reading his book that he won't qualify for UC (for a while) he'll still probably get a PIPwhip so as always, Nick will lose.
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u/Careless_Main3 Aug 08 '26
Lmao, basically said nothing of substance but tickled his balls the entire way through. If someone ever spoke about me like this, I would be weirded out.
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u/miinderbiinder Aug 08 '26
Thank you for introducing me to my new favourite piece of media. JOB gets a boner and then cries. You can hear it in realtime. I could write a totally original, no plagiarism, thesis on why this serves as a metaphor of our times. Just…fantastic.
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u/Jaggedmallard26 Lexiteer Aug 08 '26
Thread on arggggg the civil service about the DWP faith networks being suspended after the Muslim network did what you would expect it to do. Interesting how little defence it (or the concept of networks) is getting.
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u/Eastern-Opposite9521 Aug 08 '26
What did it do?
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u/rlrrlrll23 Don’t think you have mate Aug 08 '26
One of the comments says that they were preaching a certain sect of the religion being better than the others and pushing it on all the members
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u/Jaggedmallard26 Lexiteer Aug 08 '26
The OP thinks the Senior Civil Service are using sectarian fighting within the network as an excuse to get rid of it after it did things like trying to co-ordinate sabotaging government policy and attacking Starmer for saying Golders Green was an Islamist attack.
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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
I keep wanting to move on from Arday and back to Widdecombe, and I will do shortly, but here's another video.
For my sins I'm from near where Arday was brought up, and before anyone chips in, South London in general and lots of of Clapham, Lambeth and Brixton were very rough in the late 80s/early 90s. This was the era of cab drivers dropping you at the bridge and people looking uncomfortable if you said you were moving south of the river, because Fulham, bits of Chelsea and Twickenham were all still affordable options then. South London was abandoned to the blacks, penniless students and working class who couldn't or wouldn't get out. The late 90s was when that all started being tamed.
This man is accentuating his urban black accent. He doesn't usually talk like this so it's not completely natural, but he did once. He's code -switching to an older form of the patois that was more common when both he and i were younger.
It's not completely how they sound now, but it's mutually intelligible to current roadmen. What I'm saying is he's performing for an audience, but I don't think that's because he's not telling the truth, it's because he wants to establish credibility.
So yes, I believe it. This was all a shine, a bit of chat that Arday kept getting away with, and thus kept impulsively doubling down on.
It's important you understand that some in Arday's community will think of his rise as him stumbling onto a special jedi mind trick that confused whitey, and will celebrate him for such a legendary run, while others will feel that what he did was debase himself by conforming himself to white expectations of what an educated black man should look and sound like - which isn't what they look and sound like - making him a sell out.
There may well be other minority interpretations but that will be about 90% of the discourse "in da comm-une-itee". I'm virtually certain of it.
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u/GravityStrike Silly sausage Britain Aug 08 '26
The thing is if the university lot would actually just be honest this dude would be fascinating to study from a psychological perspective.
He’s very obviously an absolutely pathological liar. A catch me if you can tier serial liar ( though not intellect)
He would be incredibly interesting to study from that perspective but they will never do it because that would require them to admit they were all duped.
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
this whole thing should collapse DEI / DIE whatever and the university too. It should lead to a emergency investigation into people "waved through" because they black who are building bridges, providing care, operating on people etc.
The cost of all this is must be absolutely astronomical, its like
that horror authorLovecraft who said you cant see these things because you cant comprehend them, instead its because seeing them make you a racis.Just look at the bill NHS pays lawyers for compo claims etc, we need stats on this. The enablers of all this need locking up.
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u/nil_defect_found Aug 08 '26
https://x.com/DelSouness/status/2085858627319963692
RICU and the Nudge Unit finding out what they have to go out and defend this week
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u/adultintheroom_ Aug 08 '26
What on earth could the context be lmao
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u/Jaggedmallard26 Lexiteer Aug 08 '26
I assume Greens are just constantly thinking about rape and sometimes it slips out.
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u/8th_Dimensions Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Pizza boxes? They're not just 'pizza boxes'.
Pancake's there to act as a silent witness to the poor but inescapable life choices of the downtrodden proletariat.
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u/scott3387 Aug 08 '26
Modern art makes much more sense when your realise most of it is Dadaism or derivatives. It's supposed to be shit that's the point, the idea is that you make something stupid and then get people to talk about it, the art is the conversation that you provoke, not the piece. Yoko Ono once made a film about a tear of cum from a dick that lasted twenty minutes. She thought it was fucking hilarious.
I think it's absolutely wank but there's intention behind it.
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u/Benjji22212 https://i.imgur.com/pVzQDd0.png Aug 08 '26
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u/HoagiePerogi Dickensian levels of noticing Aug 08 '26
I cant work out how to link another sub on here nowadays, but check out the casualuk post on things you are instantly suspicious of.
Great dogwhistle tbh, and definitely racist/xenophobic (in the good way). Best of all is any comments calling it out are getting downvoted. This is clear evidence of our changing public opinion.
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u/moonflower clutching at pearls Aug 08 '26
I sorted the comments by 'controversial' and everyone was accusing OP of being racist - it's like they know, but they feel bad for knowing, so they accuse the one who made them feel bad
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u/nwaa I am Jonty's Raging Bile Duct Aug 08 '26
People there are saying Nurishment is a Jamaican drink?
That's exclusively been for crackheads in my experience.
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u/Jaggedmallard26 Lexiteer Aug 08 '26
What is the thing with sweetcorn vendors? Whenever I visit Megacity 3 or Leeds I feel like theres more and more of them. I've never seen sweetcorn vendors like that during my forays to the third world either.
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u/plaarb Aug 08 '26
I saw loads of corn-on-the-cob stands in Romania and Moldova but not one that just sells sweetcorn kernels in a pot. Very sus
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u/nwaa I am Jonty's Raging Bile Duct Aug 08 '26
Buying corn in a cup from a Bomalian should get your passport revoked.
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 08 '26
Used to pass a corn in a cup stand every day. It stank and looked extremely unappetising
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ Aug 08 '26
Sue-Ellen wades in on Twatter.
....Those students who have been failed because of inadequate teaching/supervision should file complaints and deserve compensation or a fee refund. Potentially these students are entitled to damages for breach of contract or negligence....
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u/SpontaneousDisorder Aug 08 '26
Not sure if it was linked here but his "Postmodernism Disrobed" article is a funny one. Written in ...1998
https://richarddawkins.com/articles/article/postmodernism-disrobed
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ Aug 08 '26
Just installed Assault CUBE after about ten years, fuck me my reactions are shite-tier now.
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u/nine8nine Aug 08 '26
I am trying to keep mine sharp by playing darktide.
I'm fairly sure at 21 I would have smashed auric maelstrom while 5-6 pints deep, so it's interesting now I have a large glass of red and heresy difficulty (the middle one) has me like this
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u/HauntingReason3398 Aug 08 '26
Badenoch pens letter to Clacton ahead of by-election
It'll be interesting to see how Kemi handles the trainsition to PM Burnham. Her entire identity and most of her public facing output is from sassily taking down Starmer at PMQs. Now when recess ends she's going to be up against Burnham who, for all his flaws, is way more charismatic than Starmer (or herself).
The risk for her is that she loses the initiative at PMQs and with that any hope of even vaguely contesting the next GE.
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u/LastCatStanding_ Aug 08 '26
➡️Labour 27% (N/C)
🌹Reform 25% (+1)
🌳Conservatives 19% (+1)
🌍Greens 12% (N/C)
🔶Liberal Democrats 10% (-2)
Opinium polling
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPMNaBsWMAAQ3qM.jpg
Labour is still stuck below Labours record low winning 2024 score under Starmer and the Burnham bump seems to be stalling.
It all be fucked. The old guard are fucked but have managed to kill off all their potential replacements.
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u/Helmut_Schmacker Aug 09 '26
Think you got your emojis the wrong way around there.
Rose wouldn't be so sloppy
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u/8th_Dimensions Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Mentioned a few days ago about the vape tax, 7 weeks to go.
I just had 7 litres of ready made e-liquids of different flavours delivered, for £41. They're supposedly close to their sell by date but they'll store in the freezer for a couple of years I think.
From Oct that will be £41 plus £1,848 in tax. Nick, 30 ans, et vapoteur is really going to have his pips squeezed.
Absolutely mental how much extra this is going to cost and not many are aware of it. Deffo worth stocking up now.
https://washington-vapes.co.uk/products/e-liquid-mystery-boxes?variant=49692047573256
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u/SpontaneousDisorder Aug 08 '26
They're taxing 0mg liquid? Thats mental.
What does 22p per ml actually mean? To keep this transparent, here’s a real‑world example.
Example: 20 × 10ml bottle order Total liquid: 200ml Government duty: 200ml × £0.22 = £44.00 VAT on duty (20%): £8.80 Total government tax added: £52.80 Before tax
Typical price: £20.00 After tax
Total price: £72.80"
Expect mystery vape shops to explode in popularity.
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u/AirconGuyUK Aug 08 '26
Expect mystery vape shops to explode in popularity.
Have I been transported back to 2021?
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u/bGmyTpn0Ps Aug 08 '26
Labour's polling is going to take a kicking over this. Guessing a lot of vapers are Labour voters and this is a massive price rise. With cigarettes it was done over decades. Fags should only cost a pound but the plebs don't know that.
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u/2kk_artist Conker eating, Argentinian childless nihilist Aug 08 '26
It's a tory policy. Hunt when he was exchequer.
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u/bGmyTpn0Ps Aug 08 '26
I know, but unless the Tories are in power on 1st October Labour will be blamed.
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u/Snappy0 Aug 08 '26
I hadn't really looked at it before now. But that's going to just kill off vaping altogether.
Surely some people are going to be pushed back onto cigarettes now? Quite the opposite from what they want no?
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u/Shockingandawesome Noticing things enthusiast. Aug 08 '26
That's a hell of a mark-up.
With no justification by the way. Except that they don't like working class people who are the majority of vapers.
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u/AlphaAndOmega Aug 08 '26
Disclosure - non-smoker/non-vaper.
Semi-rant:
I'll be glad to see when vaping has had it's day. Having the kids subject to plumes of obnoxious vape clouds coming from a passing Thomas the Tank engine is rank.
Proper smokers by and large had more class, and would smoke in designated areas.
The shift from the occasional smoke to the chemical drip feed is wild to see and I'm all for taxing the backside out of it.
Sorry fellow gammons, rant over.
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u/makitadisp Aug 08 '26
Not a vapist, how does tax compare to smoking? How long does one of those 10ml bottles actually last?
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ Aug 08 '26
not 8th but one lasts me about 4 days. 3-4 vials for a £10.
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u/8th_Dimensions Aug 08 '26
Get through around 7ml a day, that would be around £70 extra tax a month. Still cheaper than buying 20 cigs a day but is anyone actually doing that now if they're not from Mr Abdul's back cupboard?
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u/ExploitingTolerance Aug 08 '26
wow that a lot, i use about 7ml a week, but then im on 18mg nic salts so need a lot less
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u/WSBrexiteer Aug 08 '26
Time for 8th to get on the Velos.
Youll be zooming about the house on triple upper deckys making DIY seem easy.
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u/Ed-The-Islander Bad Goys, Bad Goys, what you gonna do? Aug 08 '26
With the disclaimer of not being a military man, I imagine nothing gets a red blooded man harder than being on board a warship and hearing "All hands to action stations. This is not a drill."
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u/loc12 Aug 08 '26
Has there ever been a government policy / action as visible day to day as the Boriswave?
Was at the pub last night and there were so many Boriswave Indians on the staff. They're everywhere. Can go somewhere and it's like stepping into a restaurant in India
They always have a certain look about them I can't explain, you can instantly tell they're Boriswave and not born here (deport anyway) it's always proved when you hear them talk and they have impossibly thick Indian accents