Well the bias is I was born just outside Cambridge. My grandfather lectured there (though never a professor or even a reader he was significant enough to get an obit in Nature) and I have more than my fair share of relatives who’ve been students, fellows, and other sorts of academics there.

Cambridge is a smaller city than Oxford and the university possibly more dominant and much of the land around is flatter (fen country) so somewhat bleaker in winter. King’s College chapel is well worth a visit and Trinity Great Court or to walk along the backs to Grantchester (or stare at the Corpus Christi clock). If you do go, I would certainly go a bit further to Ely where the cathedral dominates the countryside in much the way it would have done when it was first built.

If we wish to stay focused let’s keep in mind that Oxford has specifically stated in writing that it has no record of Ravi being on their payroll. Wycliffe Hall has stated that Ravi has spoken at their hall before but never held a formal position.

So it is lies all around whatever the protocols are around the use of “professor.”

Ravi has removed all non-honorary Oxford references from his CV, which he posted in April.

Rocksy. Yes. Cowardly. That is exactly what it is. Ravi hired lawyers and a PR firm (Mark DeMoss) and tried to divert attention from his deceit.

No confession, no repentance, no humility. Just tobacco company/catholic church survival mode.

Sick.

BTW I would agree with him that Cambridge is prettier than Oxford, but, I will admit to a bias.

Hmmm,….. I tend to buy the insecurity defense, although it is not much of a defense when the cure for the insecurity is massive fraud. But maybe I am being naïve. Maybe Ravi is just a good old fashioned businessman who knows what it takes to build an empire. Nothing insecure about him. He just knows how to lie his way to fame.

But his memoirs, walking from east to west, do tell a clear story of low self-esteem and a desperate need for adulation.