The youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history embodied the university’s perfect narrative of diversity. It was only when his biography began to unravel that the university realised the value of the investigations it had, until then, dismissed as a smear campaign

The leader of the M5S is leaving the decision on aid to Kyiv to the wider electorate, but in doing so is undermining the democratic strategy of ‘programme first, candidate second’. If the winner of the primaries is to decide foreign policy, then it is the leader who writes the programme, not the other way round

He was a provocateur on the far right; he has previously written under a pseudonym for white supremacist websites and has espoused racist and misogynistic views. Yet today he has become one of the most scathing critics of Trumpism, which is destroying expertise, safeguards and institutions

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