Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, has been found dead.
Emergency services said a man was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
Arday resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last week after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims.
“China Is Now the World’s Great Oil Power,” The Economist declared on August 9.
So, what is the significance of this pronouncement? The world’s oil power is also the world’s energy power. The world’s energy power, in turn, is a leading contender for the world’s dominant power. “Energy is the foundational brick of the global economy,” Jonathan Bass, the CEO of Argent LNG, told Gatestone.
China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, exerts great leverage over markets, but The Economist is nonetheless wrong.
Following a recent setback, plans to build a tunnel for Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan have received approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The permit issued Wednesday is required for a plan to replace the pipeline crossing in the straits with a tunnel. The approval comes after Michigan’s supreme court recently ordered state regulators to reconsider another permit for the project.
China’s auto factories are building so many cars for export that the global shipping industry can’t keep up.
Specialized car carriers, essentially floating parking garages, are booked out years ahead to export cars from Chinese factories. Rates to charter ships are up 65% this year on the surging demand to move vehicles out of China.
Chinese carmakers are flooding foreign markets because of fierce competition between more than 100 domestic auto brands, overproduction and a sluggish economy. Now, the shipping industry is navigating skyrocketing rates and scarce capacity.
Canada is moving quickly to secure a long-range strike system that has proved effective in the war in Ukraine, putting much of the country’s evolving defence-procurement strategy to the test.
The deep-precision strike (DPS) system that Canada is looking to buy from another country initially, and later develop in-house, is somewhere between a long-range one-way attack drone and a cruise missile.
It’s a mode of attack that several North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, including Canada, have identified an urgent need for based upon observations from the war in Ukraine. Germany and Norway are among the countries with companies leading in this field.
Less than successful test launch of a Republic-Ford JB-2 clone of the German WWII V-1 flying bomb at Point Mugu on the Californian coast circa early 1947 pic.twitter.com/Hsw1jo8eMZ
— hw97karbine (@hw97karbine) August 7, 2026
You would think, given how stupid some people are, that they would have difficulty breathing. After all, it’s clear their brains are broken.
But God, being merciful, ensured that our autonomic functions are controlled unconsciously, so that even lefty academics are able to breathe normally despite being otherwise brain-dead.
Man with four lifetime gun bans pleads guilty in London strip club shooting
A man under four separate lifetime court orders barring him from possessing guns and other weapons has pleaded guilty to firing a handgun into the door of a downtown London strip club.
Several PJ Media writers have commented on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s attempt to put a new suit of clothes on “woke” in order to hide the stench of hate, intolerance, hysteria, and lunacy associated with it.
“I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy,'” said Ocasio-Cortez with a laugh during an interview with ABC News host Jonathan Karl recently.
Industry insiders say companies are opting to wait and see as the clock ticks down on U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff deadline, rather than rushing shipments across the border to beat the buzzer.
A new round of 50 per cent tariffs on nearly US$20 billion worth of Canadian goods ranging from dairy to down jackets is set to take effect Aug. 19.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK “the Islamic republic of Britain” in a podcast interview, where he also described the country as the “first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon”.
His comments, made during an interview for Israel’s army radio, played into a common far-right Islamophobic trope about Britain’s small Muslim population.
Netanyahu praised positive coverage of Israel by the journalist Randolph Churchill, the son of former prime minister Winston Churchill, over half a century ago, then said: “Go find that in today’s Britain, in what is called the Islamic republic of Britain.”
He’s right Piers.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) August 13, 2026
OTTAWA – Several Conservative MPs are privately expressing deep concerns about Pierre Poilievre’s leadership, with some telling CTV News they do not believe he will still be leading the party when the next federal election is called.
CTV News spoke to 17 members of the Conservative caucus from all regions of the country, and all were granted anonymity to speak candidly about the party’s challenges and internal concerns.
So who will be the Messiah? I see no Count Binface on the horizon.
Luigi Mangione said Friday he is pleading guilty to both counts of federal stalking charges connected to the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a major development that could complicate New York prosecutors’ separate murder case against him.
Mangione, 28, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to two stalking charges resulting in Thompson’s death. Each count carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new sovereign wealth fund risks repeating the problems of a troubled British fund he helped create, a new report warns.
The report, released Thursday by think tank the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), notes that Carney’s Canada Strong Fund echoes the United Kingdom’s National Wealth Fund, and argues that the resemblance should be a red flag for the Canadian prime minister and former Bank of England governor.
I bet Carney will do ok though.
China is suspected of funding pro-Palestine marches in the UK, The Telegraph can disclose.
US politicians investigating alleged secret Chinese backing of Code Pink, a far-Left feminist protest group established in the US, are examining its activities in Britain as part of an inquiry into foreign interference.
Code Pink has organised protests in the UK against Britain’s involvement in “the genocide in Gaza”, encouraged its activists to demonstrate outside RAF bases, and issued statements claiming that Britain’s leaders have been “bought by Zionism”.
Canada isn’t mentioned as it’s assumed the LPC is a ChiCom subsidiary.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said both U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney will now be given “options” following trade talks between Canadian and U.S. trade officials on Thursday.
Greer, who spoke to CBC News exclusively following the talks, called the meetings “good” and “cordial.”
Following the meeting, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters he would “continue to do the work Canadians expect us to do.”
