Tom Slater

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448 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Last Orders - a spiked podcast · Jason Arday, DEI and how woke killed the university · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

I think it's uh fair and hopefully legally airtight to say.

Do you wanna fill us in a little bit on what you found most uh interesting about this?

I think they found about a hundred passages which seem to have been lifted wholesale or tweaked slightly like his other thesis.

Pretty much.

Um just stumble across the same form of words.

Yeah, over and over like yeah, money

Yeah, right.

And to ruin all of that by plagiarizing So now it was it was a snooker claim, though.

It was a snooker claim that got me interested, as you can imagine.

Is I suppose the serious part of this, Tom, is the way in which when these allegations were made, Cambridge University, including some of the other universities that he had previously had positions out, the one that um awarded him his PhD, have basically just doubled down.

They've said that there's nothing to see here, I believe even Cambridge uh suggested that this was a sort of smear campaign, um, implying, if not explicitly saying that this was racist.

I mean, does that surprise you?

Well, remarkably.

Sure.

Yeah.

I th did the telegraph also find it had a punctuation error in the title?

Yeah.

There's an apostrophe in there for no reason.

Because you know, that's something that your spell checker would you know, or autocorrect would say.

Yeah, surely.

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