‘Lord’ Simon Woolley is the principal of my old Cambridge college, Homerton. That makes him its most prominent institutional figure, with more influence over its culture and wider intellectual environment than any other individual.
Here, he totally falsely calls the death of Jason Arday a ‘lynching’.
This is complete, unfettered dogma - pushed to shut down legitimate scrutiny of the ideological corruption of our elite universities. (I’m assuming you’re familiar with the Arday story, but if you’re not, you can take a look at my summary of it here, and for a longer read I also strongly recommend this great piece by Lara Brown in the Spectator).
Imagine being a student at that college and (rightly) questioning this type of cultish racial grievance narrative. Do you think you’d feel able to do so? I would say almost certainly not.
This is far from an issue confined to Homerton of course, or even to Cambridge. Ideologues like Woolley, with a clear and moronic political agenda, are warping the education system, and by extension public life more broadly (please read my mega-essay on how and why here).
And they’re not being held accountable for it.
I wrote this a few days ago, before Arday’s sad passing. Uncomfortable as it may be to discuss at this time, it remains true.
Also, what happened to the otherwise endless liberal panic about ‘misinformation’?
Telling a large angry crowd that Arday was ‘lynched’ and ‘assassinated’, as Woolley did, is about as perfect an example of said misinformation as it’s possible to imagine.
Has BBC Verify ‘fact checked’ this blatant, deeply divisive, falsehood? Let’s see. Nope!
Has it fact checked self-proclaimed and prominent ‘anti-racist’ figures for making the same claim? Nope!
Oh but the BBC has quoted those figures as authorities in their coverage of Arday, without mentioning that they are in fact woke activists, some of whom proudly make statements that verge on open bigotry towards white people (see the screenshot lower down in this article, for instance).
And will there be calls ‘not to weaponise’ the tragic death of Arday, to insist no political conclusions be drawn, an insistence we wait for the ‘full facts to be known’ before passing comment, and so on, like there always are whenever deaths occur that undermine a progressive narrative?
Doesn’t seem like it…
How odd!
The BBC, you won’t be surprised to hear, routinely quotes Andrews.
Oh and while we’re on the topic of Cambridge/the absolute dross that passes as ‘profound’ sociological thinking, let’s look at who else is conducting ‘research’ there…
Arday was just the tip of the iceberg. The rot runs deep.
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If you enjoyed this, you might also like this article, from a few months back, in which I look at the situation at Homerton/Cambridge/within academia more broadly, in greater depth:
The racial grievance narrative lives on
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May 31, 2025
Sir Simon Woolley, the principal of my former Cambridge college—Homerton—just gave this speech to students. Have a watch, and imagine sitting in the audience as an open-minded undergraduate who takes issue with racialised identity politics.
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