We often ask: how did Britain get so broken? Prof. Jason Arday, the...

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What if the Jason Arday story had ended with something far darker than a resignation letter? Arday and Cambridge University have serious questions to answer. The media was RIGHT to investigate potential fraud and institutional failure. But this August feeding frenzy became something else. If the relentless scrutiny had ended in tragedy, would we in the media still be patting ourselves on the back? #JasonArday #Cambridge

Albie

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The early 2020s were a strange and intense period. Have we passed "peak woke?" There are still parts of society where things are as bad as ever. Academia, for example, seems about as woke in 2026 as it was in 2021. But in elite media, and across the professional-managerial class more broadly, the climate has improved somewhat. In 2020, the far left gained control of many institutions and saw an opportunity to rapidy advance its agenda. But the overreach produced a backlash, culminating in part in Trump’s election in 2024. Since then, there appears to have been a period of partial retreat and self-reflection. Still, I do not think woke politics has disappeared permanently. It is better understood as being in hibernation. This is what many people misunderstand. In 2020, activists were digging up social media posts from 2009 and judging them by the progressive moral standards of the present. Today, some people assume we have passed peak woke, so they feel free to speak their minds without consequence. But they may not realize that, in 2033, woke politics could return in a new form. The people back in power may search through posts from 2026 and say, “You wrote this six or seven years ago. We are in charge again, and now you will be held accountable.” The ideology may be less visible for the moment, but the institutions, incentives, and habits that sustained it have not necessarily gone away.

Rob Henderson

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Nigel Farage Nigel Farage has been a tormentor of the immigrants in the UK, and his type of politics has led to a racial division and hatred that we have not seen in the UK for almost forty years So, it is nice for his neck to be pressed by the media, and I hope he is enjoying the ride.

Dele Olawanle

17,416 views • 1 month ago

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BOOM: The liberal daughter, is baffled by the Trump supporter's lack of awareness about the term "Woke" and wonders why not everyone aspires to be Woke, understanding everything and everyone, including their own identity and whom they care for. Does anyone else think that this woman has the correct understanding of what it means to be "Woke"?✋🏽 #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE

Popular Liberal 🇺🇸

568,061 views • 3 years ago

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Author James Lindsay agrees with Elon Musk, he says that ‘Woke’ is a “mind virus” and it spreads “The way that this way of thinking about the world, ‘woke’ way of thinking spreads, it is sort of viral — It spreads through ideas — a mind virus — so the way it spreads is through ideology and people promoting and pushing the ideology.” “It's the phenomenon of social contagion — we saw this also with the woke left with the trans phenomenon, where we saw this rapid onset gender dysphoria — where you have this Rapid explosion, thousands of percentage points raising of young women in particular, but young men to a degree picking up transgender identity, and so quickly — This ideology was being spread in fringe places. On Tumblr and then later TikTok and across social media and eventually it started to work its way into the school curriculum with the so-called gender-bred person and the gender unicorn, and there's 200 genders and which one are you? Let's all explore it. They transgress further and further into it. And this is the way that the mind virus spreads”

Wall Street Apes

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Elon Musk: The woke mind virus is opposed to fairness and common sense. “I'm appealing to common sense and fairness. Which is that we should make our decisions based on merit. If somebody is talented and hard-working, that should be the only means of advancement. There should not be discrimination on the basis of sex or religion or any race or anything else. A lot of the woke stuff is actually super racist. It's super sexist. And it's often anti-religion, but only anti-Christian. Why only anti-Christian? That's unfair. So this is why, again, my message is to the reasonable middle. You want a world where there is fairness and common sense and you advance as a function of how hard you work and your talent and your integrity. That should be all that matters. And the woke mind virus as I call it is against all of that. It's wrong.” From: Conversation with Tommy Robinson, September 13, 2025

ELON CLIPS

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The Free Speech Union is taking an interest in the story of Jason Arday for a number of reasons. First, we want to know who paid for the threatening letter from the law firm Carter-Ruck — effectively a SLAPP — that was sent to Times Higher Education in an attempt to get journalist Jack Grove to stop asking Professor Arday questions about his academic record. Was it Jason Arday himself? The University of Cambridge? Or the Good Law Project? Second, we want to know who reported both the academic and former professor David Harris and Times Higher Education journalist Jack Grove to the police, alleging harassment after they began asking Arday questions about his academic and extracurricular record. In David Harris’s case, the Metropolitan Police referred the complaint to Devon and Cornwall Police, which rightly decided there was nothing to investigate. But in Jack Grove’s case, he was contacted by the police and informed that he had been the subject of a four-month investigation by the Met. While officers said they would be taking no further action, he was told he should refrain from questioning Jason Arday again because it was also affecting Arday’s mental health. The police should never be telling journalists whom they can and cannot question — particularly when there are legitimate questions that need answering. Powerful people should not be able to use the police to silence journalists and academics who are simply asking questions and doing their jobs. The Free Speech Union has written to Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, to ask what on earth his officers were playing at. He has yet to reply. If Jason Arday was the person who reported these individuals to the police, that is one thing. But if it was the University of Cambridge, that would be even more serious — and is something FSU General Secretary Lord Young will be raising in Parliament in due course. Watch Lord Young below 👇

The Free Speech Union

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In Canada, there’s a growing push to expand euthanasia eligibility to “mature” children who have the “capacity to consent”: “The head of the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons testified before Parliament that he thinks it's important that [euthanasia] may be considered for children with severe deformities and abnormalities, as he put it. And the leading euthanasia lobby in Canada has suggested it may be expanded to those ‘mature minors’ who they think have the capacity to consent, maybe along with a parent or guardian agreeing, but are able. So, this is an actual conversation in the policy space across Canada. And we already see the elimination of the requirement for consent with the euthanasia of persons with dementia who might make an advance request but then are unable to really change their mind. Their former self can bind their future self so irrevocably that they are not required to give consent, final consent, which was a former safeguard that we had before the moment of their death. And so these crises of consent also get eroded.” Amanda Achtman, founder of the Dying to Meet You Project

Jan Jekielek

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Mamdani on Arch/Ballroom/Club Rose Garden: My message would be that this is not what government has to be. This is not the only vision for what it looks like to have politics in this country—that is so divorced from the needs and wants of everyday people. And what we are looking to show in New York City is an alternative to what has led so many to become disenchanted with the political process. We want to show that not only can government work, but it must, and that at its core, our responsibility is to working people—to ensure that we’re doing everything to make their lives easier. That has to be what drives our actions, and for too long, government has felt more like a distraction than a fulfillment of the needs of the people who’ve been left behind by the politics of today.

Acyn

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Elon Musk on how woke culture and DEI stifles progress, innovation and creativity: "I'm appealing to common sense and fairness, which is that we should make our decisions based on merit and how if somebody is talented and hardworking then that should be the only means of advancement. There should not be discrimination based on sex, or religion, race, or anything else. And what a lot of the woke stuff is that it's super racist, super sexist, and often it's anti-religion but only anti-Christian. Why only anti-Christian? That's unfair. So this is why, again, my message is to the reasonable middle: Do you not want a world where there's fairness, and common sense and you advance as a function of how hard you work and your talent and your integrity? That should be what matters. The woke mind virus is against all that. It's wrong."

Ian Miles Cheong

14,057 views • 11 months ago

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Here is a supercut of the media telling you President Trump has early onset dementia while they knew damn well it was actually Biden. The media in this country needs to pay a price for the deliberate and consistent, psychological warfare that it engages in against the people in this country. And I’m not being dramatic. And I’m not being hyperbolic. I just don’t know how else to come to terms with the fact that we have an entire media class that actively coordinates lies in order to deceive the American people.

Insurrection Barbie

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I shared a video from Nick Freitas yesterday about how to encourage and reach young men. You should check it out if you didn’t see it. Now, here is a clip that shows how to repel and discourage young men. This is so frustrating, Sean DeMars and Neil Shenvi. Leaving aside the whole “woke right” thing, whatever. You acknowledge that the Left has total cultural control. Then you mock the idea that white men are systemically discriminated against in our culture, or that we live in an effeminate gynocracy. What do you think the Left does with its total cultural control? You mock young men by claiming that their discrimination has no basis in reality, but has to be understood via some “gnostic” higher knowledge. This is not fair. We are starting to get more and more hard data on this issue. I will admit that there is an element of “look around, this should be obvious.” It should be, and you’re really sticking your head in the sand to deny these things. But being on the Right is to believe in God’s created reality. It’s not about “lived experience,” it’s about what is actually true. White men are being discriminated against in this culture, and the West has been feminized radically in the last 60 years. The biggest problem with the woke was always that they were wrong, beyond even their philosophical system. It wasn’t merely that they were claiming to be oppressed, but it was that this claim was wrong. "This argument sounds like that argument" is just so lazy when one was factually wrong, and one is factually right. The claims of the Right are correct in general. But at the end of the day, good luck crapping on young men like this. We'll see how that works out for you. I won’t be joining you.

Nate Schlomann

47,845 views • 8 months ago

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Jason Arday epitomises a major opstacle in Britain's quest for the freedom of speech: In this excerpt from the UCL 'BAME Awarding Gap Keynote Lecture, 2021' Jason Arday discusses why speech and language must not just be limited, but "corrected" because we live in a "hyper diverse multicultural society". Accidentally, he concedes that such a society requires such delicate navigation that it can no longer be permitted to speak freely, and naturally, requires men like Arday to determine those limits. The Jason Arday affair, demonstrates that race science remains an area of academic study at Oxbridge and beyond. Its key scholars are people such as as Dr Arday & Kehendie Andrews. The areas of research are: 1) how to demonise Britain's domestic population and occupy its institutions 2) how best to censor/penalise speech in any given space 3) how to advance their own racial in-group (by way of 1 and 2). This has broadly been called the 'decolonise' movement in Oxbridge over the passing decade. It all sounds and looks like this, by the way, and allowing this radical political movement to be academised has done immeasurable harm to our HE institutions and the quality of academics within them. Arday perfectly epitomises it.

Michael Reiners

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Is AI a good option to replace WOKE teachers? Chairman of the Constitutional Rights PAC Larry Ward tells Riley Lewis that AI could be a good replacement for WOKE teachers in academia, but they need to make sure that whoever codes the AI does not make it woke, and there must be guardrails on The Real Story with Riley Lewis Watch OAN Live here:

One America News

17,578 views • 10 months ago

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President Kagame on sports shaping countries’ economies in the future: It's not just the future. When you talk about, for example, the arena, the stadium, it's already happening. People are taking notice of that and counting and knowing that it has employed so many, it has brought in so much. And that interaction around people here and beyond, with the rest of the world, speaks volumes in terms of value. So it has already brought in a lot. And it's a question of growing that. And we also know that statistics show that even across Africa, in terms of sports, it's running into billions as to what sports can bring to the continent, tens of billions. I think what we do as leaders at different levels is to encourage people to be part of realizing that story and reaping the benefits. And it's happening. So it's no longer something you just listen to and think it is for others and not for you. Now people believe, they start by believing. And when they start by believing and see things happening, then they believe even more and get more involved. And, I mean, the sky is the limit.

Presidency | Rwanda

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I recount a joke from the old Soviet Union: a man handing out leaflets in Red Square. Of course, the KGB arrested him and bring him back to headquarters. Only they discover the leaflets are blank sheets of paper. They confront him: "What is the meaning of this?" He says, “What’s there to say? It’s so obvious.” So the point of the joke was, he was generating subversive common knowledge. That is, the citizens of the Soviet Union, they all knew that the regime was inefficient and cruel and oppressive, but each one may have thought that they were the only one, that everyone else was happy. Or they may even have thought that everyone else was aggrieved the way they are, but they didn’t know that everyone else was. And so everyone just kept their misery to themselves. By just making it public, making it common knowledge that there’s a reason to oppose the regime, that can unite people in opposition and can really bring down a regime. Thinkable

Steven Pinker

70,152 views • 6 months ago

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Dr P Arora (Pooja Arora) and I spoke about cancel culture and common knowledge, the topic of my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Me: Yeah, so cancel culture is one of the phenomena that has surrounded what’s sometimes called the Great Awokening. It’s a humorous term based on the Great Awakening, which was an era in American history where there was a huge multiplication of Protestant churches and of religious fervor in the 19th century. That was the Great Awakening, and so the joke is it’s the Great Awokening, probably starting maybe around 2014, but then it really exploded in 2020 in the United States with the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But anyway, cancel culture, which is not restricted to the left, to wokeism—and in fact, in the United States in the last year, we’ve seen an eruption of cancel culture from the populist MAGA Trumpian right, especially after the killing of Charlie Kirk—where the same things that were happening in woke culture, namely someone would have a tweet or a comment that seemed disrespectful of the dominant ideology, and they would get threatened, they would get censored, they would get fired. So in my book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, one of the chapters is called The Cancelling Instinct. It’s a bit of a play on my book, The Language Instinct. It just asks the question: since it is not only the woke left, but it can also be the MAGA right—and to say nothing of the fascist right or the Nazi right—to repress speech, the question is why? Why do we feel the urge to shut up people we disagree with? Particularly since one of the principles of the Enlightenment, and of science and democracy, is that you need to have free speech, because none of us is infallible. The only way we make progress is that people—everyone—express an opinion; other people are free to criticize those opinions; and it is in the crucible of debate and criticism that we see which ideas are good, which ones are true, which ones are errors that we should discard. I suggest the reason that there is such an urge to cancel is that we all are—we live by moral norms, not just by laws where the police will arrest you and put you on trial and put you in jail if you break a law. And that happens. But we have many more norms of how we live our lives, where people don’t do something because, you know, everyone knows you don’t do it. Why does everyone know? Well, everyone knows that everyone else knows you don’t do it. You don’t walk around naked. You don’t eat mashed potatoes with your hands. You don’t insult people to their faces. You don’t point out—if someone is overweight or has a speech impediment—there are dozens of these norms. And some of the norms are: you don’t make racist comments. You don’t make comments that demean women or gay people. What upholds these norms? Common knowledge. They exist because everyone knows they exist, which means that if it appears that a norm is threatened—crucially, in a public arena where it could be common knowledge—then there is an urge to punish that person, but also publicly. That is, in an arena of common knowledge. That is where everyone can see the punishment, and everyone can see everyone else seeing the punishment. That’s what’s necessary to prop up a norm, and that, I think, gives rise to the urge to censor and cancel, often in highly public ways. Now, in the old days, it used to be that there were public hangings and public crucifixions and burnings at the stake. The electronic equivalent is the internet petition with 600 signatures or the social media shaming mob, but I think the underlying psychology is the same. Now, in some cases, this could be positive. That is, it really is good that we don’t insult each other to our faces, that we don’t tell racist jokes, which were very common when I grew up. On the other hand, in arenas like science, democracy, the rule of law, the truth is more important than social harmony, and the whole point of scholarship, academia, of science is that you find the truth even when the truth seems uncomfortable. And so cancel culture can get in the way of our collective effort to acquire knowledge.

Steven Pinker

63,515 views • 6 months ago

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HE (RUBIO) DOES NOT UNDERSTAND, AND THIS IS TRUE OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT IN THIS COUNTRY, THAT FOR RUSSIA, THIS IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT. THE POSSIBILITY OF UKRAINE BECOMING A MEMBER OF NATO IS SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE TO THE RUSSIANS. IT IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT, AND THEY ARE NOT GONNA STOP UNTIL UKRAINE AND THE WEST ARE DEFEATED AND THEY BOTH ACCEPT THE FACT THAT UKRAINE HAS TO BE A NEUTRAL STATE, NUMBER ONE, AND IT HAS TO BE DISARMED TO THE POINT OFFENSIVE THREAT TO RUSSIA. - John Mearsheimer

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