The Worst Academic Scandal in 817 Years!

The Jason Arday Story

THINGS FALL APART FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND “PROFESSOR” JASON ARDAY.

This is, quite likely, the worst academic scandal of all time. There have been other academic scandals over the centuries, but nothing quite like this one. It’s the worst academic scandal not only because it indicts one of the greatest universities in the world, but because it indicts all higher education in the English-speaking world! The Arday case is the symbol and culmination of the kind of intellectual and moral rot that has been seeping into higher education for sixty-plus years.

If Cambridge University—an 817-year-old institution—is to be saved (and it’s an open question as to whether it can or even should be saved), all those administrators and faculty involved in hiring, promoting, and defending Jason Arday should be fired immediately. Nothing less will do if Cambridge is to survive.

The great tragedy of the L’Affaire Arday is that there may very well be scores if not hundreds of similar cases around the English-speaking world.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF CAMBRIDGE STARTS HERE.

Watch Professor Hilary Cremin, Head of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, fawn all over Arday and say to him: “You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do!!!!!!!” I’ve never seen anything so cringeworthy in my life. It’s just so pathetic:

LET’S START FROM THE BEGINNING

For those not familiar with the Jason Arday story, I tasked Mr. Grok with the following assignment: “List the fantastical claims made by Jason Arday?”

Here’s what Mr. Grok reported, which sums up everything I’ve learned about Arday over the course of the last week:

“Jason Arday (a former University of Cambridge sociology professor who resigned in August 2026 amid plagiarism allegations (the plagiarism consisted of directly copying over 100 pages from another dissertation) and scrutiny of his background) has been widely reported to have made numerous extraordinary or unverified claims about his life, achievements, and experiences.

Key claims include but are not limited to:

• Diagnosed with autism and global developmental delay at age 3; non-verbal until age 11 and unable to read or write until age 18.

• Extreme athletic feats: Running 600 miles (roughly Edinburgh to London) in six days for charity (a near-world-record ultra-distance performance); alternatively or additionally, running 300 miles in three days; and completing 30 marathons in 35 days (including the final nine after an epileptic fit and hairline fracture of the fibula that caused severe swelling, managed with painkillers and ice baths).

• Charity fundraising: Personally raising £5–£5.5 million (or more) for 70–80+ charities over years, often tied to the running events.

• Threats and attacks after his Cambridge appointment: Being threatened twice by masked men (once at knifepoint) demanding he resign, with no CCTV evidence; receiving a severed pig’s head at his family’s home (falsely claiming a police investigation); and receiving bananas, bullets, corrosive substances, and other items via post, plus physical assaults, spitting, and rape/death threats.

• Television appearance: Being featured in the documentary series Seven Up! as a child. The original series began in 1964 (Arday was born in 1985), and the BBC rejected involvement in related later series given his age.

• Academic credentials and roles: visiting roles at Ohio State University (no records found); and authoring a book titled Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse (Palgrave—publisher confirmed a proposal but no publication).

• Other experiences: Traveling to South America and West Africa to install water points (WaterAid noted they do not send volunteers abroad and do not facilitate self-funded visits); being hit by a car as a teenager, spending months in a (conscious) coma, being told he might not recover (with suggestions to withdraw life support), and relearning to walk/talk (details varied or omitted between book proposal and memoir); testicular cancer or multiple brain tumors (details inconsistent or omitted); and appearing to claim involvement in Olympic-related activities or other feats.”

HERE IS THE JASON ARDAY NEWS ROUNDUP:

• DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge

• Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor.

• Cambridge Professor Jason Arday’s Ohio State Affiliation Appears Fabricated.

• Police investigated journalist who tried to expose Cambridge professor.

• Charity casts doubts on volunteering record of Cambridge professor.

• Now THREE universities dispute claims Cambridge plagiarism row professor holds academic positions with them - as charity casts doubt on volunteering record

• Jason Arday reported academic critic to police after questions over his research

• Star Scholar Resigns as Cambridge Announces Investigation Into His Record

• WHO HAD TO LOSE FOR JASON ARDAY TO WIN?

• The police. Universities. Our national broadcaster. Publishing. Charities. And, of course, Labour... The surreal ‘plagiarising Professor’ scandal exposes in chilling detail just how many of our institutions have now been captured by woke dogma

• Great and Unfortunate Fabrications

• Icarus in the Faculty Lounge

NOTE THE ATTEMPTED COVER-UP BELOW:

AND IT ONLY GETS WORSE!

AND SO, IT ENDS!

TO BE CLEAR: THIS POST IS NOT PRIMARILY ABOUT JASON ARDAY.

It’s about the corruption and rot at the heart of Cambridge University. Here is a partial list of courses currently being taught at Cambridge University. This is the real scandal at Cambridge U:

• Traditional Cultural Norms, Technology and Gender Relations in Ghana

• The Political Economy of Female Circumcision

• Unsexed beings: constructing gender, humanness, and agency through the use of the word “unsex” in Late Modern British society and writing

• In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate

• Legal Mobilization by Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Womxn in Kenya and South Africa

• Exploring gendered embodiment in transgender and gender-diverse adolescents at the intersection of exercise and eating behaviours, social inclusion, and mental health: Towards a desire-centred approach in paediatric gender-affirming healthcare and research

• Codes of Life, Codes of Death: Tracing the (Im)possibility of Trans Lives in Algorithmic Assemblages

• Queer Cultural Memory in Literature, Film and Television since 1999

• The Sexually Sociological: Gay Masculinity, Intimacy and the (Un)queer State

AND NOW WE KNOW, THANKS TO ERIC RASMUSEN, WHO HIRED ARDAY.

The wall of shame:

I SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING UNRESERVEDLY:

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU WATCH THIS INTERVIEW WITH KATHLEEN STOCK. She nails it.

AND MORE:

FROM PHILOSOPHER STEPHEN HICKS. The hall of shame: Jason Arday’s prominent supporters at Cambridge University and elsewhere.

IT’S A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO THE BOTTOM? The Tip of the Iceberg

AFTER 817 YEARS, IT IS SAD TO WITNESS THE DECLINE AND FALL OF A ONCE GREAT UNIVERSITY:

• Can Cambridge weather the Arday storm? Whatever happened to serious scholarship?

• Cambridge University’s Disgrace

THE CORRUPTION RUNS DEEP:

LAST THOUGHTS FROM BRET WEINSTEIN AND PETER BOGHOSSIAN:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IS A FRAUDULENT INSTITUTION JUST LIKE THE UNIVERSITIES IN AMERICA’S SO-CALLED “IVY LEAGUE.” (Remember the Claudine Gay scandal at Harvard.)

THE QUESTION IS: WHAT WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT?

• Dons call for Cambridge leaders to take blame for Jason Arday appointment

• Cambridge Can — but Evidently Won’t — Catch Jason Arday.

• Arday’s students think Cambridge failed them. Now they want their grades reviewed.

• Cambridge professors who hired Arday attacked ‘whiteness’ in education

• Cambridge is culpable in plagiarism row

• Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI

• The genius of Jason Arday

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

I conclude with one last thought: the Jason Arday scandal is one of the best possible things to happen to higher education in my lifetime.

But let’s make this clear: the Arday scandal is not primarily about Jason Arday; it’s about the corruption of Cambridge University and indeed of all higher education. Arday is, to be sure, a fraudster and a grifter, but his crime is to have exploited a totally corrupt system. The “system”—the system of DEI welfarism—is the greater crime. The faculty and administrators who hired and promoted him are intellectual and moral malefactors who have stolen something important from us. They deserve to be fired. They do not belong in the hallowed halls of academia.

I’m not at all confident that Cambridge will fix the problem. They will appoint a “committee” or a “commission” to investigate and two-years later the committee will bury the report and do nothing. It’s all a charade.

Let’s be clear: there is NO systemic racism in higher education, at least not the kind that they want you to think exists. Quite the opposite. There is, instead, a kind of fawning, sycophantic but ultimately demeaning treatment of black scholars that is, as black scholar John McWhorter put it, “a symptom of academia’s dehumanization of black scholars and willingness to accept intellectual mediocrity in its self-seeking pursuit of virtue.” Just so! So yes, there is racism at Cambridge, just not the kind they want you to think exists. It’s the racism of low expectations, the racism of guilt, and the racism of revenge.

But the new, systemic racism is more than about the pursuit of some form of perverted virtue as McWhorter suggests. Hilary Cremin, the Chair of the Education School at Cambridge and Arday’s chief promoter (she’s the fawning woman in the BBC documentary above who said Arday “was the best in the world”), was clearly looking for redemption—the kind of redemption that relieves one of an overwhelming sense of guilt. You can see it in her eyes and hear it in her voice when she tells Arday that he is the “best in the world.” Jason Arday was hired and sanctified by racists, who are morally responsible for his rise, decline, and fall. They nailed him to the cross.

Arday’s career is ruined. He should sue Cambridge for having hired him!

And so, I think we should all say “thank you” to Jason Arday. We owe him a debt of gratitude for exposing the intellectual and moral rot not only at Cambridge University, but in all higher education in the English-speaking world.

I think the only proper ending to this story would be for King Charles to knight him as Sir Jason of Cambridge. Surely he deserves that much!

***Have a great week!