The story of Jason Arday is one of the strangest and yet embarrassingly sad representations of political correctness, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion running amok. [Recap of Absurd Stories Here]
After one of the most ridiculous and absurd life stories was seemingly accepted by the Cambridge University academic community, they raised Jason Arday to a professorship of sociology and education in 2023. Then slowly it surfaced that the guy was a professional plagiarist and was passing off the academic work of others as his own.
Everything unraveled as those outside the university system started looking at Arday’s scholarship and life claims. The absurdity of it all ended up with massive embarrassment for the university and those within it.
Arday resigned in disgrace; but prior to the discovery of his fictitious life story being sold as real, he signed a book deal which was scheduled to launch this week. I suspect the publisher did some serious hindsight research and discovered the material in the book was entirely made up. Something happened, and today Mr Arday was found dead.
Daily Mail – […] Professor Jason Arday was found unresponsive at a London address shortly after 3pm on Friday.
It comes after a tumultuous few weeks in which fellow dons had questioned if the 41-year-old academic’s work was original.
[…] The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: ‘Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at 3.12pm on Friday, August 14, following a report that a man had been found unresponsive inside a property.
‘Sadly, a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported by officers.
‘At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious.’
The statement added: ‘The case is being investigated by officers from the Met’s Central South Command Unit. A file will be prepared for the coroner.’ (read more)
…”When Arday resigned from his professorship and his fellowship, he said that this should not be ‘mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me’. He cited the ‘personal cost’ of the furore which he said had been ‘too great’. He also cancelled a series of events to promote his new memoir, Great And Unfortunate Things, which was released in the US this week.”…

Wait! Are we sure he didn’t fake his DEATH, too??
Considering his other prowess, that’s entirely possible.
Y’all so raycis…this all y’all fault ! Somebody got to pay for dis $#it….!!
We be morning his deaf. So y’all shut the hell up!
He din do nuffing…axe his momma, he a good boy. Never hurt nobody!
Mama got the GoFundMe pity pot rolling in the cash yet?
A two bullets to the head suicide.
They call it Arkancide.
Was Hillary anywhere nearby?
Maybe he used two guns at the same time?
Had a noose around his neck and was attempting to hang himself but the bullets were faster.
I heard he called the suicide hotline first…
But they left him hanging 🙂
The GOAT
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AI AI, AI…..
We have a winner!
Perhaps he called the hotline, and was steered toward euthanasia? In the EU, that’s the new fast track health care.
You cinched it, Wordman!
They left him hanging… but at least he took a shot. 😉
A noose? So they have MAGAS lurking in the alleys of Cambridge now too?
bullets in Less Britain? I don’t think so.
MI-6 faked his death per request by the socialist Labour Party.
Daily Mail says, he’s a “…Professor Jason Arday…,” even in death by sooeycide and our DEI creation; if you rightist, anti-DEI clowns think we’re giving him up, forget it. .
The missing adjective “disgraced” from “Professor” says it all.
“Disgraced” was one of his pronouns!
Was he the one Charlie Kirk debated a few years back?
I dont think so
Was he the guy who said he ran outrageous amounts of marathons?
Yep, 30 marathons in 35 days I read.
But then I recall a pro basket baller once claimed he slept with 10,000 women.
So, yes, 30 marathons in 35 days is a walk in the park, so to speak, or claim.
It reminded me of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il who claimed he got “11 holes-in-one, at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the VERY FIRST golf round of his life, according to North Korean state media. This was in 1994, when Kim was 52 years old. Even more impressive, Kim stood just 5-foot-3, yet he was able to overpower a course as long as any ever played in major championship history.”
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/7369649
Believe it or else you will be sent to a reeducation camp!
Not only did he run 30 marathons in 35 days but towards the end he had an epileptic episode and fell and broke his leg… He completed the marathons anyway…
…then he proceeded to build the world renown Eifel tower of wakanda… with nothing but a plastic shovel and rusted bucket
Racin’ Jason was disgracin’! He’d make a better fiction writer…oh wait, he already did!
Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain.
Natural selection. Go Darwin!
The world is not going to miss one faker. I’m sorry.
believe you might be under rating the left. He’ll be on a pedestal in no time.
His name will be on an academic building very soon!
One less on the corrupt payroll
Another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, heayaaaayea.
I am feeling a real sadness reading this.
Cambridge needed a hire to champion their DEI credentials, to trumpet their “virtuous” worship of an insidious cult of “woke” in a world gone mad
Arday fit what they were looking for, and they glommed on to him.
This whole sorry chapter in a now discredited institution of “higher learning” leaves a terrible, shameful mark upon it
I can’t explain, but I am so so sorry…
Sorry for what! That he and Cambridge look like complete idiotic WOKE nonsense?
I am sorry, C T, for a man who was clearly out of his depth in the first place, who kept digging his hole deeper (clearly supported by Cambridge who did no due diligence and surely had suspicions), and in the end saw taking his own life as the only answer to escaping the ferocious ignominy.
In short I am sorry on a human level for someone who took a wrong turning, something I suspect many of us have done in our lives.
And I hope you could understand that.
Thomas Sowell’s “Mismatch Effect” in academia.
You can’t con an honest man…
https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/61797/
Cloistered worlds, Andrew. All intellectual rigour snuffed out for rancid ideologies, courses/degrees to support them, and plenty to “strut and fret their hour on the stage”. And then, like, Arday, heard no more.
This is excellent and requires a coffee or two. Which I will give it tomorrow. Thank you.
I understand. He started the lie, lived the lie and cambridge embraced, encouraged and rewarded the lie. When the proverbial shiate hit the fan they abandoned him.
I feel bad he was driven to this extreme but its a reminder that actions have consequences.
For some they have. But whole “special” groups have been led to falsely believe there are no consequences for anything they may do. None. We see it here. And the ramifications for society and the societal contract which has been burned to ashes have been devastating.
Life teaches lessons which are, shall I say, inconvenient for those who believe what architects of such truth denial have drummed into them. There’s no getting away from them…consequences, that is. And that’s just an “inconvenient truth”.
He just wanted to be like Obama! The universities coveted and protected both; probably still do!
What the politic, Woke, DEI, climate change ‘elites’ do is at the total expense of the ‘non-elites’ no matter how much they pretend their causes are worthy.
They are morally and spriritually void. They won’t even feel any small for his suicide. You feel more than they ever will.
You are right of course, MC.
Everyone, to those who worship at that godless altar, is merely useful until they aren’t. Then they are simply detritus. Life is nothing to them, which is the essence of all evil ideologies. I wish more could not only see this but understand.
1 Corithians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Yes ma’am.
I will also add that for a couple weeks, the Daily Mail’s lead story appeared with screaming headlines about this man and his plagiarism. Day in…day out.
Today his suicide was relegated to a small, ignominious square, easily missed, as I did when I scanned the site.
So when I say the evil Woke/DEI ideologues dispense with those who are no longer useful for their purposes, this is the most telling and damning example of what I mean.
That’s terrible. They think and treat people as if dispensable. In spite of his messed up life, he was somebodies son, sibling, etc.
A thought which always, always occurs to me when I see people who are down and out, wondering what in their lives has delivered them to the states I see them in.
I make no judgements…just thinking how they were children once upon a time…
I blame Cambridge more than I blame him for enabling and promoting this deception. The same goes for many so-called prestigious learing centers here in the States.
Cambridge
Clowniversity
🤡 🤡 🤡
How can anyone (except the ‘superior intellects’ in academia)
EVER take
‘Clownbridge’
Seriously
Again????
He was the definition of “useful idiot” to be used and then thrown away without a second thought.
Words of wisdom, Betsy!
I tried too, so I get what you are saying. Part of the Lefist vanity hoax to prove how good they are, but he got trapped in their snare instead.
The faces they present to the world are false, Jaye. The contents of their Books are soulless.
I wonder if they ever thought about God?
Some people when they’ve been humbled or humiliated to the extent of this person they come to find Him.
I think so, sis…
Yes! Finally get to the end of our selves…
Love this Betsy ❤️
“…the end of ourselves…”
Slate wiped clean (which is grace in all its glory), fresh start.
When truth is vindicated over fraud, there are grounds for satisfaction; but no one should be gleeful at the death of such a transparently lost, self-deluded soul who has now entered into eternity and who now only faces the prospect of utter shame and everlasting disgrace. That is the sadness I feel at this news, that someone’s life could be wasted by scamming people, telling lies, being rewarded and acclaimed for it, and having no sense of integrity whatsoever, and then — when exposed — to waste the possibility of redemption and new life that Jesus Christ offers to those who confess, make a clean breast of it, recognize his mercy, turn to him, and have him turn their lives around. Heartbreaking. But a cautionary tale to those who are too proud and too pompous to admit they have need of Jesus.
We don’t know what his last minutes were like. Perhaps, as with the thief on the cross next to our crucified Lord, he came to recognize the gift Christ’s death bestowed, and asked for forgiveness. If he did so, then as with the thief who asked Jesus to remember him and who was given assurances that he would be that day with Him in Paradise, a clearly distressed man in despair will know eternal life, Slow Learner.
Let’s pray so…
Salutary? Oh yes…
You are right. We do not know and can always hope.
It saddens me too. They aren’t doing a person any favors when they feed his delusions of grandeur and help him to live a fake life just so they can pretend how inclusive and accepting they are. Looks like this institution is fake and delusional too.
And it is always a tragedy when someone takes his own life.
Cambridge has much to answer for, mom.
Cambridge has unmasked itself as a place of
Lies
Arrogance
Evil
Oxford, too.
Similar to calling a man a woman because he thinks he is a woman, no? Or a furry….we do these people no favors by entertaining their fantasies or mental illnesses…we do a great disservice to them by enabling them. ppl that do so are thinking they are being inclusive for their very own self admiration.
I’m sorry for this man taking his life. It’s a real shame all the way around.
“Lay down with dogs…….”
Just recalling all the memories of films, tv shows, and books set within or near those ancient, beautiful, hallowed halls makes me sad.
They are forever changed!
Yes sir…that they are.
What Arday had was a mental illness. What transgender people have is a mental illness. Instead of treating them and helping, the DEI and socialist left USE them for their own purposes.
It’s sick and tragic. This man was destroyed by their “elevation” of him, when he should have been in intensive treatment or institutionalized.
………institution of “higher learing”……..
Yes, when you elevate crazy people into sudden wealth and celebrity, just for being crazy and having “the look” this is what happens. They self-destruct.
Similar sad stories are cliché in Hollywood and in pop music.
Intellect and a good heart is the explanation Betsy.
What does go on at Cambridge? Seems they’ve a history of run amuck guys and fantasists. Not a good look for over educated sanctimonious twits.
I heard earlier this week that U of M will be giving only “pass” or “fail” grades this fall for the “first semester only” of new students. Reason given was that new students first semester is soooo stress full. They claim they will record their actual grade but keep it hidden.
Stupidity continues to march on…………
Maybe they need to learn to read first before giving out grades. It is Massochewsetts, or is it Mitchigan? I get so confused with these giants of higher lering.
Mitchigan
Get past the paywall
https://archive.ph/Gcd6f
Thank you
All this man’s tales could have been easily verified by most! Many tales were outrageous on their face. Cambridge has forever injured its ranking as a serious institution.
Do you think they’ll change as a result?
No.
They will not.
There will be an
‘Investigation’
That will fade from memory.
Clownbridge 🤡 has too much
Arrogance
to change.
If this man’s utterly fantastic claims were taken as truth…
when a Joe Schmoe like me could figure out
Sum tin wong…
That so-called ‘skool’
Already is infested with termites of idiocy and corruption
throughout its
foundation.
Time wounds all heels. Put him in the Perez Hilton file. People bring this on themselves. Just because Leftists preen over their own DEI vanities, they do great damage to the real people they exploit to make themselves feel good. RIP -sorry he got caught in their trap. But he had free will. It was his choice to lie, cheat and steal.
Very sad
This man’s death is ENTIRELY due to DEI and leftism.
Whether self inflicted or by a leftist assassin, the left is GUILTY
Well coddled unbridled narcissism might have a few words…..delusions of grandeur too……those attributes are non denominational ….. we have a few on our team so afflicted…..
A victim of unearned black privilege. Let this be a lesson for all. DEI is die, after all.
Is this the pompous ass who debated Charlie Kirk, poorly?
lmao
I guess I have to be ok with going to hell. 🤷🏻♂️
sounds like a killing to me. People like that don’t kill themselves. They believe its everyone else who should.
I read thru posts and quite a few are sad his lies caught up and he offed himself. I dunno… we would be in a much better place if the grifters and liars would recant or depart. Just my Friday ponder.
A couple related stories in First Things. Interesting. Apparently, either NO ONE checked any of his references, or if they did, they thought “OH no! Not ME! I’M not going to flush MY career by calling out this Black phony. Someone else can deal with this.”
“Victimhood and resentment have been used to disembowel truth and then to instrumentalize it in the service of whatever grievance group, left or right, cares to use it.”
Reading his list of self-proclaimed “accomplishments” sounds a lot like the made-up list of things claimed to have been invented by Blacks, all of which are total bunkum.
And the second cite below, to the article referenced in the first article.
https://firstthings.com/how-the-therapeutic-killed-academic-standards/
https://firstthings.com/jason-arday-and-the-therapeutic-academy/
Yes… no one was willing to question his incredible claims.
Because, in this day and age in the academic world… any
Questioning of those
Anointed by the Left is verboten.
Pass the Buck is not merely a phrase… it’s a religion in that world.
🧑🎓 👩🎓 👨🎓
It made me think of the song by Yes called “Wonderous Stories”
Another snow flake has melted itself. Cambridge University has the same oversight that our Congress has ZERO.
Sunlight melts snowflakes
The story remains that a man who belonged on a psych ward was hired by Cambridge University, which was as keen to believe his fantasies as he was.
He was exposed, as he was always going to be, and the pressure seems to have killed him. It is not so much sad as it is bitterly and predictably farcical.
The source of that pressure is Cambridge, which wanted a token black on its faculty. The guilty party is Cambridge. Any department found to have hired a man like this should be wound up immediately.
He might have been a petty swindler except that they elevated him so far above his station. He might have been found out earlier, and in a less febrile atmosphere, except that he was shielded for so long by an army of exceptionally White Knights.
But this is Britain, so rather than this prompting accountability from Cambridge, and the broader DEI establishment (because there are certainly many more like him), the media will spend the next few weeks lamenting that the racist right wingers drove an innocent man to suicide.
~thelittleplatoon
Yep.
No accountability.
No reflection.
The clowns 🤡 and the circus 🎪
will march on.
Is that one of those fake face masks which looks very shiny, and it is not really him that was found “unresponsive?
The fraud’s book actually got so far as to be published. Who’s the publisher?
It is lazy to focus on Arday. He did NOT hire himself into Cambridge. A high-ranking person at Cambridge, and/or a committee at Cambridge, hired this Arday. And some other Cambridge personnel gave overt or tacit approval. Still more personnel at Cambridge considered this hire to be a point of pride. They all should pay.
These were persons of authority at Cambridge. Can you name any one of these perpetrators? They should be identified and mocked with at least as much energy and publicity that Arday generated. Out them, mock them and make them publicly denounce the evil process they enabled.
This obviously mentally-deranged character committed suicide, and the enablers go on with life?
Exactly.
And they repeatedly defended him when it was breaking-if there was any institutional integrity all should be fired
Murder by Credentials
Sundance’s use of “Something happened…” is why I love his writing. It made me laugh!
I know, he’s good at those little statements.
“Otay!”
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) indoctrination
is Woke political indoctrination.
Lying never gets one anywhere.
Sadly, this just isn’t true. Look at the losers we have in Congress.
Buh-bye! 👋🏾
It’s not just the unraveling of the fabulist story concocted on his behalf, but his own students, who had an unqualified person foisted onto them, complained more than once that he severely shortchanged his lectures and seemed to lack knowledge and preparation of the subject matter. But it was not acted on by those who had the power to do something because of the investment in the narrative and the fear of being called racist.
There are consequences to elevating unqualified people to certain positions due to something as phenotypical as skin color just to substitute for our own lack of virtue. You can’t live your virtue through another person and any lack thereof will have to be remediated through our own redemption. That’s what it means to be a person of integrity. And now a young man is dead because he couldn’t live up to the lie and the expectations that flowed from it.
Cambridge administration failed not only its students but also Jason Arday by being co-conspirators in his role-play. (I see the same tragedy playing out with those who encourage the transgender delusion.) If they collectively wish to set an example, then the most virtuous thing they could truly do would be to begin submitting resignations.
J
As bad as things are these days one of my first thoughts was ‘did the publisher kill him to increase sales of the book?’
That’s probably not the case. What is sad though is all of the people that enabled him in his fraud. So I believe that they are partialy responsible for his death. If indeed he did commit suicide. He was most likely so shamed that suicide seemed the only way out. And if was not for the enablers he wouldn’t have been put in that position in the first place.
If that is the case his blood is on their hands.
Plagiarist Lives Matter.
Requiem for a Dream
Jason Arday was a child of God, as are we all. He was a liar, certainly, but he committed no monstrous sin. Let’s mourn him humbly and without rancor.
Alex Berenson
Aug 14, 2026
“…We don’t know yet how he died, but everything about the statements English police and his family have made suggests suicide.
Whatever your religious views on the subject, suicide is a tragedy — particularly for a 41-year-old man with two children whose greatest failing seems to have been puffery. The lies Arday told were absurd and childish and obvious (nine marathons on a broken leg!). They are the sure sign of a man desperate to prove he is worthy when he knows he isn’t. It is not his fault he was promoted far past his talents; should he have turned down the University of Cambridge when it offered him a professorship?
In any case, his body is not yet cold.
I don’t believe we should never speak ill of the dead; some humans cast a shadow that leaves the rest of us cold even when they are gone. But they are few and far between, and as far as we know Jason Arday was not one of them.
I offer this reader letter as a more fitting eulogy…”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/requiem-for-a-dream
A lot of famous people have attended Cambridge and its second cousin Oxford. I wonder what they think about all this?
Not worth dying over.
From what I’m hearing, he didn’t just poach from academia. His book is said to have poached from cultural and entertainment media.
Behold a true victim of DEI, and I mean that sincerely. Why push yourself to achieve and accomplish if it is not a requirement of success? The irony is that Professor Arday was pushing the same bill of goods that established his downfall.
The committee at Cambridge who selected Mr. Arday bear a significant responsibility for their role in this tragic end to a young man’s life – regardless of his actions and background.
If the selection committee had done the minimal amount of research into his background, they would have discovered his plagiarism, picked a more qualified candidate – and avoided the discrediting of their selection process as well as damaging the Cambridge University reputation for academic excellence.
While I do not condone Mr. Arday’s actions, I send prayers to his family and loved ones who will have to live without his presence in their lives.
Those at this platform gloating or otherwise mocking this young man’s tragic end should pause and reflect upon their statements.
You left out the main actor. Remember your RL Stevenson: Everybody soon or late sits down to a banquet of consequences
I knew a fabulist. Nice guy whose stories belied his circumstances, and then I met more people who’d known him. We began comparing stories, and then there was no doubt.
I don’t think anyone becomes afflicted with this without having gone through some terrible life experiences at a very young age.
I feel nothing but sadness for Arday. My anger is for all the people who have the power to put troubled, confused, mentally ill people on to a positive, therapeutic track. But instead, they use these people as props in their schemes to corrupt institutions and corporations with DEI, and to further confuse the young and impressionable with claims of gender-fluidity.
If you’re against slavery, against dehumanization, then you’re against the “Cambridge administrations” of the western world.
Suicide. That’s bad juju. It would have been better if he just faded out of the scene like Juicy Smollet.
Given his great claims of miraculous feats, maybe we should wait three days to see if he has one more miracle in his quiver.
I find many of the remarks here odious and disgusting. This was a disturbed human being who deserved the embarrassment that came as a result of his lies being uncovered. But to mock or condone the end of his life is evil. There are many here who need to examine just what they believe and hold dear. For example, I wonder how many of you call yourself Christians. If Jesus was sitting next to you as you typed your thoughts, would he have approved? Once you answer that question honestly, admit your sin and repent.
For every person like Arday, who lies and receives as a reward a position he isn’t qualified for, there are others whose real achievements and qualifications are passed over for the position. There are other victims here Arday gave no thought to. Save your sermons , please. Look inward to the state of your own soul.
Risa, it’s appropriate that each of look inward to state of our own soul. I think that applies to all of us. But I have to wonder what kind of person mocks someone who commits suicide. As for you, what is a single academic position compared to the life a man?
“Jason Arday found dead
“Academic had resigned from the University of Cambridge last week,” published 08/14/2026, 7:59 PM BST!!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/14/jason-arday-found-dead/
1) “”Jason [Arday] was subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse for the more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned in their quest to undermine him,” they [his family] said in a statement.”
(My analyse: His absence of actual knowledge in his Academic Field, and his evil, fraudulent, and twisted worldview, with the Woke Ideology, as a Poster Boy for the DEI Agenda, was close to be exposed. (= He became Professor at University of Cambridge BECAUSE FOR BEING a Black Racial Marxist.).)
2) “The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason [Arday], who was a gentle man and always wanted to see the best in everyone. We [his family] are in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son.”
(My analyse: He was finally exposed as a fraud, plagiarist, and as a Black Racial Marxist – (a Junk Sociologist.).)
My correction:
“Jason Arday found dead”
He had a doctorate in education, just like “Doctor Jill.” Apparently they also shared a similar level of academic competence.
Just another perfect example of why everything you hear coming out of these institutions is just b*******
DEI in a nutshell
Cambridge University and UK lefties INCLUDING THE LABOUR PARTY, are responsible for promoting this DEI fake and the whole DEI BS
Who can ever ever regard Cambridge and Oxford as reputable educational institutions again?
Cambridge University has said that Arday has been the victim of a ‘vile campaign to undermine his credibility’.
UNREAL
The guy had NO CREDIBILITY
He was the BLACK LITERARY WALTER MITTY!
Or Joey “Two Scoops” Bidumb.
IMO clearly the guy was mentally ill
Confabulation is a sign of tertiary syphilis