Jason Arday
The Jason Arday review already knows who to blame
In case you were in any doubt that Cambridge University’s ‘independent review’ into the Jason Arday affair will blame the…
The word ‘tragedy’ has lost all meaning
The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has said the university has ‘lessons to learn from the Jason Arday tragedy’.…
Call me a cripple
In case you missed it (well done, if so), last week Will Self wrote an extraordinary rant on Substack attacking…
The questions Cambridge still has to answer about Jason Arday
If poor Jason Arday killed himself, it will be necessary to work out why. To do so, it will help…
Portrait of the week: barbecues are banned, Burnham is fooled and Farage wins Clacton
Home The temperature reached 38.1ºC at Kew Gardens, Surrey. In the West Midlands a wildfire at Stourbridge burnt down 19…
Jason Arday’s tragic death is no reason to silence the press
Physicians and the Samaritans warn against attributing suicide to a single cause. Doing so simplifies a complex tragedy. Those who…
Letters: Cambridge University is not a victim
After Arday Sir: Lara Brown scathingly condemns Cambridge University’s acceptance of Jason Arday’s credentials (‘The fabulist’, 8 August). That it…
Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI
The Music Man, The Sting, Catch Me If You Can: movies and theater have a rich tradition of stories about imposters who…
How much water is lost to leaks?
Diverse academia Jason Arday was heralded as Cambridge’s youngest-ever black professor when appointed professor of sociology of education in 2023.…
Cambridge has fallen
‘What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford,’ A.A. Milne said in 1939, ‘is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled…
The fantastical truth about Jason Arday
The story of Jason Arday is so brilliantly illuminating of the rottenness of our Establishment that it seems – literally…
