Good news reported by the Telegraph (£) 30 hours ago, the Mail (£) 25 hours ago, The Spectator (£) 12 hours ago, Bucks Herald 12 hours ago, the Times (£) 11 hours ago.
The most recent piece from the BBC is the original story published last October, University vice-chancellor suspended, students told. [Update 1.2.25: Three days on, the BBC has still not reported on Tooley’s reinstatement and clearance of all wrongdoing.]
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Its interesting how this is reported. One simple fact is left out. That the alleged “affair” was a decade ago. Long before his brief marriage to his estranged wife, who made the accusations. So the impression that this was during his tenure at Buckingham Uni is quite false. At least most reporting points out that the young woman herself describes the relationship as respectful and she didn’t feel used at all. I can’t help thinking the estranged wife used the “me too” narrative to get revenge on the Prof. knowing full well that any whiff of older man younger woman will get salacious reporting.
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Vice-chancellor’s claim he was targeted for his ‘anti-woke’ beliefs rejected | University of Buckingham | The Guardian
An interesting example of the “no smoke without fire” approach to accusations against men. The report rehashes the story and suggests the KC may not have seen all the documents. Leaving out the relevant dates does the job. Suggesting that the “affair” occurred pretty recently. Whereas in fact it ended in 2019, a year before he became Vice Chancellor and three years before he married his current “estranged” wife. The young woman say she was 25 at the start of their relationship though her diary shows she hero worshipped him from age 18. at a time the Professor was actually living in Hyderabad in India as he was involved in a few years long project about education in India and other “third world” countries. The relationship had nothing to do with the University nor indeed his wife, and wasn’t “an affair” at all.
Of course the Guardian doesn’t “believe all women” when it suits them otherwise they would have quoted “Anyone who reads my diaries can see I was in love with him and wanted to be with him. He was kind and thoughtful and always treated me with respect. People will say he used me because he has power and money. But that’s not the case. He is a good man who cares a lot about other people,” the Indian woman wrote in her diary as quoted by The Times, reported the Daily Mail.
No doubt Professor Tooley will keep having this brought up every time a “source” want to stir up trouble and the Guardian wants to find a predatory “patriarch”.
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