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  • Mamdani is also the beneficiary of a $1.3bn windfall due to an accountancy error last year, so he has a one-time slush fund to play with, and the rest of the policies are paid for by deferring things like reducing classroom sizes to some nebulous point in the future and by one-time grants from Albany designed to shore up his standing.

    He’s not god, he’s just the wizard behind the curtain like all the others.




  • Not quite. He was exonerated by the vaguest of “investigations” which only considered that a complaint came from a racist, and discarded out of hand the concerns of his colleagues about his behaviour. There is growing pressure for Cambridge to mount an independent investigation into the first investigation.

    Arday then hired the elite law firm Carter-Ruck, which has a reputation for SLAPP tactics against journalists, and they succeeded in getting Times Higher Education to spike their own investigatory reporting into him late last year as they prepared a story looking into his fabricating medical research subjects and plagiarising other studies.

    At the time of his death, he was being investigated by Jesus College and Cambridge University in separate proceedings, and Queens University Belfast. This time they were considering the copious evidence that Arday plagiarised from his students and lied about his achievements, rather than focusing on a complainant. Even Carter-Ruck couldn’t suppress the reporting as accusations mounted.







  • It is understood that this is the deal for any correspondents travelling with a President. The Secret Service are there to protect one man, everyone else is expendable.

    This stuff happened before Trump and will happen after. The only stand out part of this episode is that usually the press on board are informed (not for dissemination) when this happens. On this occasion they were not. The objection in the press is to not being told, rather than the gambit itself.