Cambridge chancellor criticises 'racist feeding frenzy' around Jason Arday
Cambridge's chancellor condemned a 'racist feeding frenzy' surrounding Professor Arday's death, prompting over 30,000 petition signatures for an inquiry into media scrutiny.
- Professor Jason Arday, Cambridge University's youngest Black professor in its 800-year history, died by suicide on August 14, just days after resigning from his position.
- Arday faced growing criticism concerning his PhD thesis and accounts of his personal achievements, prompting his resignation from Cambridge in early August.
- More than 30,000 people gathered outside the National Gallery to pay tribute, while a Good Law Project petition signed by 90,000 people demands an inquiry into media coverage, citing "two weeks of relentless harassment."
- Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy read a family statement saying "the public cruelty Jason was subjected to was too much for any man to bear." Lord Woolley, a friend, called the criticism a "public execution."
- Sir Patrick Vernon established a GoFundMe page that has collected more than £170,000 in donations. Arday's family concluded, "Although it is bittersweet, now kindness is needed in life, not just in death.
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In Wake of Arday Scandal, European Elite Institutions Turn on Free Speech Instead of Reforming
The Western value of free speech appears to be hitting a terminal phase outside the United States, especially in the Anglosphere where censorship in the name of political correctness now runs rampant. That’s my takeaway from the ongoing “Arday affair” which, if anything, solidifies just how pathological and ultimately tyrannical the DEI obsession has become...
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Jason Arday’s death sparks UK debate over academic rigor, racism after media ‘frenzy’
LONDON (AP) — In 2012, a smiling Jason Arday was photographed by the British press carrying the Olympic flame in the torch relay that preceded the London Games. He was back in the news in 2023 when Cambridge University hailed…
The devastating news of his death, probably a suicide, has sparked a bitter debate about whether it was right to report on his plagiarism and...
Calls for Public Inquiry Into Jason Arday ‘Witch Hunt’
Public figures and friends of Jason Arday have called for a public inquiry into media coverage surrounding the former Cambridge professor before his death. Labour MP Diane Abbott and actress Jameela Jamil are among 30,000 signatories of a letter to the prime minister, which claims Arday’s death followed “two weeks of relentless harassment”. The letter...
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