The British Academy: a big black hole in the nation's finances

It received £274 million from taxpayers between 2019-23 - and has rewarded us with nonsense research

Remember Keir Starmer’s speech earlier this week? The one that said:

There’s a budget coming in October and it’s going to be painful. We have no other choice given the situation that we’re in.

Today I thought I’d show British taxpayers some of the “pain” being experienced at The British Academy, “the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sci…