Unravelling

August saw the terrible hounding and death of Professor Jason Arday of Cambridge University. Even some sympathetic voices maintained afterwards that he was a fabulist, but two reports from the Byline Times firmly suggest otherwise: The Peter Thiel-linked race science network that penetrated Cambridge and targeted Jason Arday. The story behind the story of The Times’ “impossible data”. A tax loophole has been bleeding UK councils dry since 2008, which explains why our streets have become riddled with potholes and a lot else. “What America did to me is wrong”: inside one of Trump’s third-country removal flights. How the media has normalised Republican voter suppression. The Network State, an emerging blueprint for tech-backed authoritarianism. To beat fascism, scrap neoliberalism. An excerpt from Jon Ronson’s latest book, The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unravelling Men: A party, 101 princesses and an eccentric millionaire. Elon Musk unravels over some perfectly normal interview…