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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 3h

“We live in the age of search engines that offer us thousands of instantaneous answers. Yet, no matter how powerful they may be, they merely return what already exists and tend to give us what we already want.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 21h

Seems to me they have actually won. Any monetary 'losses' are by the by.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 02/10/2026

Disgraced theology professor James Orr had a PhD student cover at least six of his lectures last year, allegedly without pay or the Faculty of Divinity’s knowledge. - Students raised concerns at the time -The PhD candidate stood in Orr’s place at first year exam

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 02/10/2026

Letter to the University of Cambridge calling for the suspension of James Orr jonathanchaplin1.substack.com/p/letter-to-...

In my judgement, the Faculty and university are now suffering considerable and mounting reputational damage as a result of the highly credible allegations of criminal behaviour, in the form of breaches of electoral law, reported in the recent Channel 4 News programme about Dr Orr’s fundraising activities for Reform UK, and at greater length in the Verbatim Investigations film on which C4 drew (VERBATIM). In the C4 report, a former Electoral Commissioner declared himself to be ‘shocked’ by what he saw and said that some of the activities of Dr Orr there reported seemed on their face to be plainly illegal. In the Verbatim film, a senior lawyer was even more forthright in asserting that he judged they were clearly breaches of the law. It is at least very clear to any viewer that Dr Orr regarded some of his fundraising activities as needing to be concealed from public view.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer #NationalPoetryDay

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026

I love being underestimated in the morning. Smells like freedom.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026

My all-time favourite poem for #NationalPoetryDay (A class of schoolchildren were asked to write haikus. One wrote this. It's a masterpiece, and he or she is probably a psychopath 🤤)

Haiku

Five syllables here
Seven more syllables there
Are you happy now??

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026

It wasn't intentional to publish on the day that @timeshighered.bsky.social announced their World University Rankings, but it was timely. Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026

I just couldn't understand how the leading UK higher education publication and global leader in University rankings had not reported on the multiple scandals and a police investigation of a Cambridge Professor, who doubles as Reform UK's Head of a policy plus chairs foundations.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026

What really got me interested in the story was this 👇🏿

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026

Six days ago I wrote the thread linked below. Times Higher Education's lack of interest in James Orr had bothered me for weeks. Today Byline Times published the investigation that explains this very British scandal at length. Corruption, racism, sycophancy & graft bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026

Times Higher Education who published at least six articles about the late Professor Jason Arday signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán’s government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around Cambridge academic James Orr whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 29/09/2026

ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, the three leading artificial intelligence assistants, were asked to recommend the best conveyancing solicitor in Doncaster. They all came up with a firm that was ordered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority last year to pay a penalty of £23,549,

Need a good lawyer?

Consumers who ask an AI assistant to recommend a solicitor risk being directed to firms that have been fined by their regulator or even shut down, a report says today. The research was carried out under controlled conditions by Blind Justice UK, a small charity that seeks to improve access to justice

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 28/09/2026

Kind of loving this. Apparently a line in the Super girl film.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 28/09/2026

Boston Globe: A finance scandal in Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party has put scrutiny on Cambridge theologian James Orr, a former adviser to the party who has been the subject of student complaints, according to the Financial Times. www.pressreader.com/usa/the-bost...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 27/09/2026

Ten new appointments to the High Court of England and Wales rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-judges...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026

My book pile is looking somewhat conspiratorial 🥴😆😭🤭

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026

I occasionally get these very lovely messages or emails from writers who we published @writersofcolour.bsky.social and am touched every time! It was a special time, gone too soon. What a nice thing to see today 🫶🏿

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026

I would, I guess, if I really had to, die on this hill.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026

It's starting to sound hollow when people say that Britain is in a dark place.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026

Then there was the whole Guardian thing 🙄

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026

There's a whole long story behind that email. And it was sent to me after weeks of being fobbed off, misdirected and shouted at by the MOJ. (They no longer allow me to speak or prisoners on the phone let alone visit.) The point being even they gave me credit! So best to engage...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026

Apropos of something and for any interested party that might be watching, you should respond, because I generally get what I need in the end. And will relentlessly pursue it until I do. (Screenshot from 2022)

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026

OMG, OG Sugarbabes are releasing an album 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I am interested in which news platforms DID take Hungary's money between 2015 and 2025. Reuters reports that France's Le Figaro, Spain's ABC, and Denmark's Jyllands-Posten did, but that there may be others..

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 23/09/2026

Iin fact they have a whole section of the website dedicated to them called 'Discover Hungary' www.timeshighereducation.com/content/disc... Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, Government of Hungary

Photo of a Hungarian building. Superimposed text: Building resilient ecosystems in Hungary

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Did you see Piers is suing Spencer? Or now he's not. Now he is.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Whilst not able to share any correspondence from or to IPSO whilst the (Spectator) case was open, as it is now shut, this was my last response. @newscord.org

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Without more exculpatory evidence, one can conclude that @timeshighered.bsky.social is a white supremacist online magazine, that barely even fulfils its function of covering the higher education sector. @pauljump.bsky.social @jgro-the.bsky.social @chrishavergal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sama...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

There is one article that mentions Cambridge Associate Professor James Orr on the @timeshighered.bsky.social site since 2025. There is no photo of him in it. No mention of his alleged misconduct. No mention of his alleged criminal conduct or indeed Christofascism or ethnonationalism.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

The hounding of Arday was a witch-hunt, and the silence on Orr is its proof. These outlets are not delivering the news to their readers. They are delivering an agenda. Every article is listed and linked at newscord.org/editorials/o... via @newscord.org

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

A journalist covers stories that are of public interest. Orr is undeniably of utmost public interest. These journalists chose their subject by who he was, and when the next Cambridge scandal arrived with a police investigation attached, they looked away.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

A Cambridge academic on the education beat, under examination by the university Gilligan writes about weekly, facing a police investigation, and the man who says a Black college head is unfit for his job has not found him worth a line.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Times Higher Education, the trade paper of the sector, ran 12 pieces on Arday and none on Orr. Every outlet followed the same pattern: - The Times: 30 on Arday in a week, 4 on Orr - The Mail: 28 against 1. - The Telegraph, whose front page carried the polls & which says it was misled: 26 against 1.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

- Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism. In the week after he resigned, fifteen national outlets wrote 163 articles about him. - In the week after the Channel 4 film, the same fifteen outlets wrote 14 about Orr.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

The next stage of the dismal Courts and Tribunals bill, where scrapping duty trials is still under consideration is on the 13th October. There is a protest outside parliament on the day. But lawyers, judges and others should be lobbying against it now. bills.parliament.uk/bills/4083

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 18/09/2026

There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find out when the time comes. —Ernest Hemingway mediadiversified.org/whats-the-di...

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 18/09/2026

'We don't talk about the very real harm that privately run, profit driven camps do to people seeking sanctuary.' — @asylummatters.bsky.social

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