Jason Arday, celebrated as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge University's history

Dreaming Spires, Gleaming Liars​




The fall of Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday began six weeks ago in mid July but I didn’t hear about it until early August, when suddenly it was everywhere - a national scandal.

In terms of his “expertise”, Arday was the standard Black “academic”. I will let someone else summarize:

He pushed the same anti-white ideology that led to Henry Nowak’s death.

He wrote about how higher education is institutionally racist, even though his own fraudulent career is a living contradiction to this pernicious claim.

He was the child of African immigrants who was given a better life in this country than he could ever have expected in his homeland. Yet he chose to attack the native population and the institutions that gave him every unearned opportunity
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That would all have been fine - nay, terrific - in today’s academia… except that he did it with plagiarism. This was his (literally) fatal mistake which, once discovered and shown to the public, led to revelations of much wider, even compulsive, dishonesty.

It turned out that, over the years, Arday had made countless fanciful claims. They covered his childhood, disabilities, misfortunes, as well as many incredible achievements in sport, charity and of course his academic career. (A comprehensive list is being maintained here.)

Then video clips surfaced of him, a Cambridge professor, voicing bland platitudes and trite slogans, apparently without an original thought in his head, very clearly “a DEI hire” - but one who, it turns out, even cheated at that most dishonest game.

At first, leftists denied his wrongdoing, made excuses, called his accusers racist and the evidence against him fake or flimsy or exaggerated. But, as it continued mounting, they began giving in, one by one.

The scandal had torn a great gash in the collective reputation of Britain’s academics. A great number of them were involved in stewarding Arday to Cambridge. And then:

In the two years after receiving his Cambridge position, Arday was awarded honorary doctorates from Anglia Ruskin University, Southampton Solent University, the University of Westminster, South Bank Colleges, and St Mary’s University, Twickenham. In 2023, he received the “Most Inspirational Person of the Year Award” at the MBCC (Multicultural Business and Community Champion) Awards, was placed fourth in the Shaw Trust’s list of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK, and was awarded an honorary fellowship by the British Science Association.
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So a great number of academics had pretended, or even believed, that a midwit was a genius, a pathological liar was a beacon of integrity, and a serial fraudster was an angel.

While the scandal raged, the man himself received a lot of mockery and contempt - deservedly, in my opinion then and now.

With each passing day, the elaborate (but farcical) world of lies that he had constructed was steadily dismantled by one new allegation after another. Someone opined that even his dreadlocks were fake. He was not a laughing stock, because no-one was laughing. This was too serious, too significant, so instead he was the focal point of anger, at his audacity and at the stupidity of others which had enabled it.

And then he committed suicide.

Suddenly the stream of allegations stopped, as did the many opinion pieces describing him as a fraudster and detailing the sheer extent of his deceit, as did the articles speculating on whether DEI has gone too far, and whether wokery should be dialed back, etc. Everyone just fell silent.


Arday was certainly a pathological liar. He found he could make an easy living (being a black man) in progressive academia.

I am uncertain as to how ideologically anti-white he was. He certainly said and wrote anti-white things, but that might have been simply because he perceived (correctly) that that is what works in the water he had found himself swimming in.

I am also uncertain as to whether he was addicted to sympathy/pity. It might be that he simply found he could obtain material benefits by soliciting sympathy/pity from White people, so went ahead and did it, in pursuit not of the sympathy, but of the material benefits. Maybe the sympathy was really for the pleasure of those idiot White people who dispensed it. This was a mutually beneficial transaction: he got “stuff”, they got the pleasure of feeling good about themselves.

But he didn’t just seek sympathy. He also lied that he was a much more accomplished person than he was, by fabricating hardships he had suffered early in life, which had thwarted his progress until he heroically overcame them. You can’t be a hero unless you overcome adversity, after all. But did he do this because he wanted praise or pity? It is difficult to tell, and probably irrelevant at this stage.

Whatever the cause of his pathological lying and shamelessly dishonest self-promotion, it got him made the youngest-ever Black professor at Cambridge University.

That happened in 2023 so there has been speculation that some of the academics’ motivation for promoting him was a desire to bulletproof their department against crazed BLM guilt-mongering (by then at its zenith, three years after the Summer of Floyd).

This is plausible but seems too prosaic an explanation, ignoring the psychology of the female academics concerned. And after all, you could employ a man without making a hero out of him. You could promote him without heaping diarrhetic praise upon him. Also, academia was promoting men like this long before 2023.

Years before any of us heard of Arday, Tony Hayers coined the term “skintellectual”. This refers to a non-white academic whose career is entirely predicated on their writing endless screeds bolstering the anti-white narrative, and serving, by default, as an avatar of non-white triumph over white oppression.

All such an “academic” has in the way of thought is anti-white grievance-mongering and endless whining about inequalities (“structural” or otherwise) in how the races are treated (by White people).

Such academics have existed for decades now, and if Cambridge University were seeking yet another one to keep BLM at bay, there were far more plausible candidates than Jason Arday, whose lies about his academic record could easily have been checked, and who seems to have been a complete airhead. His only original thoughts were lies about himself.

So why were these female academics taken in by him? I think John Carter has the answer:


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Dreaming Spires, Gleaming Liars

The Jason Arday scandal began six weeks ago in mid July, but it must have been below my radar because I didn’t hear about it until the 1st of August, when it suddenly seemed to be everywhere.
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