Europe’s farmers are paying the price for climate breakdown while the EU keeps bankrolling the industrial agriculture fuelling it. STOP subsidising Big Ag. Fund a fair shift to plant-rich farming that works with nature.

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I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end

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I'm still not certain, and would like to see more on this, but I am leaning towards thinking Jason Arday's "plagiarism" wasn't particularly serious or outside the norms of academia.

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That isn’t what Stanley said; he said: ‘*Arday's impact* is easily comparable to the leading scholars in his academic field’. And that makes it clear that the metrics on Arday satisfied all the standards for hiring at Cambridge. The problem is the plagiarism, something they didn’t pick up on

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It felt to us ghoulish to monetise the episode in any way, but as it is difficult to temporarily vary our underlying commercial arrangement, we decided that all advertising revenue from this edition will be donated to the Society of Black Academics.

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