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• With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller August 7, 2026
  The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progressThe Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning. While plenty of countries have harmed universities by imposing neoliberal logics on academia – creating artificial markets in the name of spurring […]
  Jan-Werner Müller
• Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment August 7, 2026
  Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job, a government review […]
  Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
• Friday briefing: What the Jason Arday row reveals about equality in modern Britain August 7, 2026
  In today’s newsletter: Reputational power operates unevenly across elite organisations​ in British public life, shaping whose mis​takes become scandals and whose are quietly absorbedGood morning. Instinct told me we should avoid this story. Europe is on fire, Gaza is besieged and Donald Trump remains in control of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.Allegations against British sociologist […]
  Michael Segalov
• Plagiarism and a pig’s head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday – podcast August 7, 2026
  Jason Arday’s appointment as Cambridge’s youngest black professor made global headlines. Then questions about his meteoric rise began to snowball. Lanre Bakare reports.When the University of Cambridge appoints a new professor, it doesn’t usually make global headlines. But Jason Arday was different. He was just 37 in 2023 when he became Cambridge’s youngest black professor, […]
  Presented by Helen Pidd and Lanre Bakare, with Eli Block, Alex Atack, Nilufer Aumeerally and Brian McNamara; executive producer Homa Khaleeli
• Dons call for Cambridge leaders to take blame for Jason Arday appointment August 6, 2026
  Exclusive: Academics call for inquiry, saying university must be held accountable for ‘grotesque racism unleashed’The University of Cambridge’s leaders deserve blame for the “grotesque racism unleashed” by Jason Arday’s appointment as professor, according to academics calling for the university to hold an independent inquiry.The Guardian understands that senior dons at Cambridge are circulating a joint […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• The Guardian view on mental health: the new secretary of state should make it a priority | Editorial August 6, 2026
  Parity for people with physical and psychological ailments has been promised for years. New neighbourhood clinics are a step in the right directionThe rise in children and young people with mental health problems makes this week’s announcement of a new network of community clinics in England particularly welcome. A&E departments have recorded an increase in […]
  Editorial
• University of Greater Manchester ends contract of embattled vice-chancellor August 6, 2026
  George Holmes was suspended in 2025 over allegations involving financial mismanagement and other misconductThe University of Greater Manchester’s embattled vice-chancellor has had his contract terminated by the university’s governing body, ending a period of uncertainty over the university’s leadership.George Holmes, who had led the university for two decades, was initially suspended last year over allegations […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir August 6, 2026
  Simon & Schuster still plans to publish book by Cambridge academic who resigned this week amid plagiarism claimsJason Arday, the former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and embellishment, claimed he was paid “1.4 million” for his forthcoming memoir detailing his extraordinary backstory.Arday was dogged by a growing series of questions over his academic work and […]
  Ella Creamer and Lanre Bakare