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Alex Hardy

@alexhardy1987.bsky.social
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Researcher @ Liverpool University Research Interests: Digital Innovation/ Disinformation/ Cyber/ Geopolitics Permanently unhappy sports fan: Boro ⚽️ New York Giants 🏈 England 🏏

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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest thoughts on some of the alarmist reporting in recent weeks and some of the sillier comments around Baltic security - cyber and beyond. For the record - not a title I would have chosen. The Baltic countries show Europe what it can and should do to respond to grey zone activity.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This risible slop brought to you by the privately educated wife of County Durham’s least favourite son, Dominic Cummings, whose engagement with Middlesbrough extends to some judgemental trawling of Facebook. spectator.com/article/the-...
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The young men of Middlesbrough just don’t care
No one looking back on the last few weeks could say that Middlesbrough didn’t make the most of its time in the spotlight. I’ve been in the northeast during this time and opening the local papers has b...
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is actually remarkably difficult for me. Too young to remember the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11 I was 14… history definitely didn’t end, but it was sparse in the mid 90s. Blair winning in 97?
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just looking at Oxbridge in general at this point
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The Simpsons: Steamed Hams Aurora Borealis
ALT: The Simpsons: Steamed Hams Aurora Borealis
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/08/2026
Well that's me convinced.
Screen capture from the Simpsons. One juror says to another, "No one who speaks German could be an evil man."
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
US geopolitical strategy looks increasingly like one man’s weird autocrat fetish at this point www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump says US scaling back joint military operations with South Korea
His decision to reduce the partnership came after South Korea recently declined to aid his war effort in Iran.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I said this about a week ago and I’ll absolutely repeat it again - while I found the plagiarism fascinating as an academic - I could not then or now understand how it was a leading national news story. Well. I can, but it’s nothing to do with the fakery. It’s culture wars, race, and click bait.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hounded to death by absurd, over the top coverage including from the likes of the BBC giving it far more prominent coverage than was ever justified. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Emergency services said a man was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 14/08/2026
The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not now. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves serious questions as to whether the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are Qs for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Travelling though Copenhagen this week, and if I were to describe the EES experience here in one word, it would be ‘suboptimal’, and that is incredibly generous.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Futurama Fry: I Am Shocked, Not That Shocked
ALT: Futurama Fry: I Am Shocked, Not That Shocked
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Would no doubt depend on the size of the bribe.
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In case you thought you’d already heard academia’s worst thing this week: you were wrong.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Quite. As an academic I find it compelling, but also, I find the level of public attention and involvement odd. The guy is not the first or last chancer or fantasist to exist, and they’re certainly not just limited to the academy either.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Zakharova on the Baltic states: "They flourished during the USSR, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia today find themselves in the backyards of Europe. Not geographically—based on indicators, statistics. Just look at it" So let's? Avr salary 🇱🇹Lithuania: €2527 🇪🇪Estonia: €2135 🇱🇻Latvia: €1831 🇷🇺Russia: €559
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A truly generational meltdown. The fragility is astounding. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup
President also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Or had to deal with Reviewer 2.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
As an occasional bad but enthusiastic village cricket player, it absolutely boils my piss watching this. This is a bit above village level, but conning (largely) amateur sportsmen who give their entire Saturday to playing is not just 'not cricket', it's scummy. www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/cric...
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‘Worst ever’: English club cricket cheating storm erupts over ‘dodgy’ act as damning history exposed
‘Worst ever’: English club cricket cheating storm erupts over ‘dodgy’ act as damning history exposed
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is just incredibly disappointing. Rolls Royce of a footballer, lada of a human being. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Pirlo out of Italy football top job after backlash over Russian betting firm links
The uproar throws the Italian Football Federation into further disarray following Italy's third consecutive failure to qualify for the World Cup.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Delusional old man rambles about his deeply weird historical obsession once again, while various warehouses around Moscow burn.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
*sigh* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham to scrap digital ID to focus on 'helping with cost of living'
A spokesperson for the incoming prime minister says his Government would “put its focus where people need it right now”.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Not only legalised, but wholly endorsed touting (so long as you give FIFA their cut). This World Cup is grim.
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World Cup 2026: England fan tickets for Mexico on resale for up to £26K
Tickets originally bought by England fans for Monday's last 16 game against Mexico are relisted for thousands of pounds on Fifa's official resale portal.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It’s quite funny watching the European right now acknowledge what everyone else has been telling them for the best part of a decade now. They’ll never be able to command his respect like a dictator does.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So much in this, and it’s incredibly serious, but can we take a moment to appreciate how stupid you’d have to be to use your real name (or at least your real initials) while offering bribes in exchange for covert spy craft. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I am not even remotely surprised by this. So much attention has been directed towards Twitter/X, and while it is a huge problem, much larger groups of particular demographic groups are on Facebook - often those with poor digital literacy.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is nowhere near forceful enough. The American right belong nowhere near our domestic politics, and should be told in a far more robust tone that the repeat attempts to interfere in our national life is completely unacceptable. If it upsets them, so much the better.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I’m as anti-Brexit as it comes, but there’s no excusing this nonsense. Brits are not the only non-EU visitors, and European airports should be able to process travellers in a timely manner. UK airports remain relatively friction free for European visitors - this mess is a bureaucratic choice.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
‘Can’t even be a treasonous war criminal anymore. Because of woke’ Right wing contrarianism really is tedious.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For a nation that gets incredibly worked up about supposedly opposing nazism, the optics of this group are quite something. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brutal raid on woman's birthday party highlights rise of Russian vigilante group
The Russkaya Obshina group stages raids to look for activities contravening
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The list of Labour MPs demanding the PM's resignation is quite something (as in it is almost *exactly* who you'd expect it would be).
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Never a dull moment. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Middlesbrough fury at ‘spying’ row as ‘venomous’ welcome awaits Southampton
Middlesbrough remain furious with Southampton after catching a man they believe is a member of Tonda Eckert’s backroom staff allegedly spying on a training session
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Every single Local Election, the British media puts out content like this. It's wholly meaningless. Local elections aren't a general election.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
One positive from the local election results - we are likely to be spared Badenoch demanding a general election every five minutes.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Austerity not only hollowed out the state and broke near every public service. It also completely hammered the social contract - particularly for a couple of generations.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🚨The three biggest losers in Hungary’s election.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban
Aerial view of enormous crowd. Haven’t managed to source picture credit. Will post when I do
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Just going to schedule this post for the next few weeks. Inevitable disappointment.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Bank holiday weekend edition
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is what they are going to do on a large scale when they lose the next election. Not an original thought in their tiny ‘patriotic’ heads, just imported American Republican stupidity.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The home office is less than useless. Shabana Mahmood is an abysmal Home Secretary.
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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Russia and China flood airwaves as BBC World Service funding weakens The World Service is at risk of losing its position as the most-trusted international broadcaster, according to a report by the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...
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Russia and China flood airwaves as BBC World Service funding weakens – PAC report - Committees - UK Parliament
The BBC World Service is at risk of losing its position as the most-trusted international broadcaster as it is unable to present a strong case for future investment.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
One of the most completely insane football decisions ever. No way this goes without massive protest.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
And the straight of Hormuz is closed and he is demanding other nations help just for fun.
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Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I really am curious what the line is for many football clubs to remove themselves from this toilet of a platform.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
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