The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong
This is a horrible situation and I am not suggesting that the right wing media has behaved in anything other than a reprehensible manner, but the left leaning media does itself no favours by glossing over the fact that even top universities’ desperate chase to up their equality & diversity targets by abandoning the highest academic ambitions and, in this case, even vaguely acceptable vetting for top academic posts, is not doing anyone any favours.
This is a horrible situation and I am not suggesting that the right wing media has behaved in anything other than a reprehensible manner, but the left leaning media does itself no favours by glossing over the fact that even top universities’ desperate chase to up their equality & diversity targets by abandoning the highest academic ambitions and, in this case, even vaguely acceptable vetting for top academic posts, is not doing anyone any favours.
Mendacious both-sides-ing?