Michael Duggan 🎗️

Infantino would have got away with it if not for @thetimes and the brilliant reporting of @martynziegler. A free press (and the subscribers who fund it) remains a crucial bulwark against the abuse of power thetimes.com/article/9e56de…

1/ In addition to the document's plagiarism, the title of Arday's PhD thesis has a grammatical error -- he puts an apostrophe after "teachers" that shouldn't be there -- that is repeated dozens or hundreds of times throughout the document.

The notion that growing sympathy for the antizionist movement is driven by concern for liberal values, and by the Israeli right’s own drift from democracy, flies in the face of the antizionist movement’s persistent flouting of those very values—persistent refusal to allow civil discourse to be regulated by a genuine concern for truth, pluralism, and the respect owed not only to minority ethnic groups, but to distinct perspectives and viewpoints. The antizionist movement neither acknowledges the proper boundaries of tolerance nor the internal mechanics of democracy.

🚨Labour antisemitism pressure group reports Mayor of London to standards watchdog following ‘genocide’ claim Alex Hearn, the director of Labour Against Antisemitism, has reported Sir Sadiq under the GLA code of conduct on the grounds of objectivity, honesty and community relations. Mr Hearn said that, while Sir Sadiq was entitled to his opinions, his claim that Mr Netanyahu was a “perpetrator of genocide” had not been determined by any judge or international body. He went on to cite the GLA code of conduct, which emphasises the need to foster good relations between different communities and Londoners with different characteristics. “More than half of all anti-Semitic incidents recorded in the United Kingdom in 2025 referenced or were connected to Israel or the conflict in Gaza,” Mr Hearn said. “In that context, a statement by the mayor as to who is and is not welcome in London, attached to a contested and legally undetermined accusation bound up with the state of Israel, is capable of being received by Jewish Londoners as bearing on their own standing in the city, irrespective of the mayor’s intention.” Responding to Sir Sadiq’s latest comments about Mr Netanyahu, a spokesman for @LabourAgainstAS said: “The Mayor’s comments were not just misleading. “In the context of racist attacks against Jewish Londoners – the majority of which invoke Israel as a pretext – they were highly irresponsible. “His words were the opposite of community safety, for which he is responsible.”

Chelsea FC is pleased to confirm the signing of Argentinian international Valentin Barco from RC Strasbourg. Welcome to Chelsea, Valentin! 🔵

The @guardian article: theguardian.com/education/ng-i…

Should add that those who defend him simply asa victim of racism are doing little to challenge racism. 3/

…within which he works as about Arday himself. That’s not to say Arday is not responsible for his writings or actions, and that even with poor supervision should know that plagiarism is wrong. But it’s a much broader issue, too. 2/

Been off Twitter for a while, so a bit slow on the Jason Arday debate. Seems to me the key line is Arday’s response to @guardian questioning one of his claims: “To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me”. This is as much about the culture and the institutions… 1/

Liam Booth-Smith is a very smart guy but seems deeply uncomfortable in the role of visionary futurist x.com/ARC_Conference…

In 2014 ISIS burned 19 Yazidi girls alive in iron cages because they refused to become sex slaves. Nearly 12 years after the 𝐘𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞, more than 2,500 Yazidis remain missing—many of them women and children abducted by ISIS…

Here is a list of the trade unions that supported Diane’s little pro-Putin conference. You want me to put blind trust in you, and them? And I’m the one prone to exaggeration? Ok 👍🏽

"Not British, admittedly, but evil enough to be" is such a great sentence that I wish I had written it.

“It never occurred to us that anybody would think of sex as anything other than biologically determined... We never imagined there would be people peddling the fantasy that you can make up what sex you are...that people who make decisions would be engulfed by this fantasy" telegraph.co.uk/gift/3bb99f2c6…

This is frightening.

Jewish Voice for Labour used a fake Jewish identity to kosherise Corbynite antisemitism. They're now Jewish Voice for Liberation and they've progressed from 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!' to 'Yalla Intifada!'. They were never motivated by politics, just hatred. jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/article/yalla-…

Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been given by the Scottish government, the NHS and local councils to a charity which helps trans women – i.e. biological men – try to give human milk to their babies. As the Times reported this week, the charity provides a space for people ‘breastfeeding, chestfeeding or giving human milk to their baby in any amount… no matter what your feeding journey looks like.’ Its ‘Queer Milk’ initiative involves weekly sessions in Edinburgh which are apparently open to biological men that identify as women – people who are, of course, unable to lactate naturally. ✍️ Ameer Kotecha Article | spectator.com/article/we-nee… | @Ameer_Kotecha

Orgs needs to get MUCH better at removing senior people who have lost the plot. In some cases, doing nothing is downright dangerous.

The Simele massacre of Assyrians in Aug 1933 in Iraq. Many people do not know the history of the Assyrians. But it is important to know and remember. It is featured in my new book The Cauldron the Making of the Modern Middle East

The following little gems were not spewed out by The Postmodernism Generator, nor are they part of an Alan Sokal hoax. They are a representative selection from Jason Arday’s thesis, which earned him a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University. The University of Cambridge was mightily impressed, and they elected him to a professorship at the young age of 37. His thesis is now under suspicion of plagiarism, but plagiarism, if proved, would seem to be among that document’s lesser problems. “Throughout the process, at critical junctures the researcher was conscious that with regards to providing knowledge to the participants regarding reflection and mentoring, a contradictory position was being adopted, with regards to eliminating anything that may resemble a hierarchical structure.” “As the researcher, there was an awareness that the legitimacy of such suggestions regarding reliability are open to critique, however, this research study adopted these principles in attempting to maintain reliability through a qualitative research design.” “As the researcher, textual units concerning the narratives and biographies were identified based on the criteria that the identified themes were fit for purpose in supporting the themes associated with the study.” “As with other forms of discourse inquiry, narrative inquiry is underpinned by a social constructivist paradigm, in which behaviours and their meanings are socially situated and socially interpreted.” “This process allowed the researcher to immerse themself in the data collated.” “References were made with regards to the benefits that were gained from the peer-mentoring experience, with regards to developing pedagogically and working as part of a collegial environment to support each other during teacher training.” “An important consideration which also formed part of the theoretical paradigm for the research recognised that the mentoring process is socially constructed, and therefore the relationship between the participants and the researcher needed to be tailored towards supporting the professional development of the student teachers, and making them autonomous social actors in this process, hence the researcher adopting the secondary position of facilitator within the research.”