Re: Why progressives were desperate to believe Jason Arday

On 8/7/2026 9:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
> On 8/7/26 12:20 PM, Dude wrote:
>> On 8/6/2026 8:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>> On 8/6/26 8:24 PM, Dude wrote:
>>>> On 8/6/2026 4:42 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>> On 8/6/26 4:03 PM, Dude wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/6/2026 3:36 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/6/26 10:06 AM, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8/6/2026 8:20 AM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 8/6/26 7:14 AM, Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 8/5/2026 11:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/5/26 6:15 PM, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/4/2026 3:40 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 14:18:27 -0700, dart200
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/4/26 12:00 PM, Julian wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Jason Arday affair has been a great revealer. On the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one hand, it is
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a glorious romp that has brought much-needed mirth to the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nation. On the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other, the exposure of Professor Arday isn’t really about 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the guileless
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arday himself, but the establishment that elevated him. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It has served up
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a moment of unavoidable clarity in which the nonsense of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> progressivism
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stands exposed like the imperial scrotum.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is a perfect storm. We have a fantasist in an 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> environment where, for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> political and social status reasons, everyone takes his 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> claims at face
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> value, or pretends that they do because to express doubt 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would be to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> invite unwanted attention. In such fertile ground the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fantasist’s claims
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (which he continues to deny fabricating) inevitably 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> become increasingly
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> outlandish – epic marathon runs, prophetic blessings, an 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> appearance in a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> television programme that began 20 years before he was 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> born – because he
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is increasingly secure that they will never be 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> questioned. This is what
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> inevitably occurs when a fantasist encounters people who 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> want, for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whatever reason, to believe his fantasies.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It can be quite uncanny to see a fantasist at work. I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> once heard of a TV
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> project that met for its first big production meeting. It 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> was only then,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> after weeks of prep across different departments, that it 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gradually
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> occurred to everybody that the show hadn’t actually been 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> commissioned.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The writer had just told everybody that it had. And 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they’d wanted to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> believe.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arday himself can hardly be blamed for this scandal. Like 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Puff the magic
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dragon, he is notable only for the effect he had on 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> others. Who would
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dare to speak up against a wunderkind that made a lot of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> powerful people
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feel better about themselves? Like love, mediocrity will 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> always find a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> way. DEI is its great enabler, but this can never be 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> acknowledged.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Even now we can see the reluctance of Arday’s 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cheerleaders to throw in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the towel. LBC’s James O’Brien, for example, who at the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> height of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arday’s fame nodded along to his rambling tosh, is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> currently fighting a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> desperate rearguard action, telling his Bluesky followers 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Telegraph and the Times have crossed the line into 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘studied [and]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> deliberate ignominy’ with their Arday stories. I love how 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> O’Brien goes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all Victorian in his vocabulary on these occasions. He 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> must think it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> makes him look very serious. He goes on, ‘If there is any 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> case to answer
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> here, it is about Liverpool John Moore’s supervisory 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> failure of an
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> obviously unique PhD student. Something, I imagine, their 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> own exhaustive
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> investigation concluded… [it] would be comical if the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> motivation of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jason’s enemies were not so hideously obvious.’
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Like all of Arday’s fans, O’Brien’s only remaining option 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is to throw
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> murky aspersions of racism on the people who have 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> revealed him to be
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> such a colossal, credulous prat.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And of course, O’Brien has form on this as long as your 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arm, with his
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enthusiastic vaunting of the claims of the fantasist and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> later convicted
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paedophile Carl Beech. In both cases, O’Brien wanted very 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> badly to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> believe a very obvious fantasy.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Such scandals can often be mistaken optimistically for an 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> end to the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whole shebang of  progressive nonsense – for who could 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ever take them
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> seriously again? But the roots of progressivism are too 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> deeply embedded
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in the soil of public life. These hilarious exposures – 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> see also Jussie
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Smollett – are not strong enough to dislodge them. The 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> daring young man
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the flying trapeze may fall to the ground with a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> splat, but the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> progressive circus is so big that it just moves on.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> People who want to believe are easy marks for the not- 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> very- good and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> delusional. The Labour party is currently in the grip of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just such a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mania. Andy Burnham is only another kind of fantasist. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> According to him,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> after all, the big problems facing Britain in 2026 are 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mrs Thatcher,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sainsbury’s and not enough mayors. Is that really much 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> less bizarre than
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arday’s claims? It feels a bit like he’s pulled three 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> things out of a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hat. Another dip would have brought up unicycles, Toyah 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and not enough
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people called Steve. And on the right, enough people want 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to believe in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rupert Lowe as the next prime minister, despite his 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> actual status as
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nothing much more than an electoral irritant to Reform.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As Arday shows, we need safeguards against that common 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> human failing:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ignoring the truth in favour of what we’d prefer to be real.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gareth Roberts
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> do u think this journoslop actually saying anythning?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You are supposed to read the article BEFORE you post your 
>>>>>>>>>>>> query.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> dud u don't even know how to read,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> so i don't even know why i'm writing this cause u can't 
>>>>>>>>>>> fucking read it even!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 🤷🤷🤷
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nothing you like I suspect, maybe even nothing I like.  He 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wouldn't be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the first.,
>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>>>>>>> Nothing to see here move along.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> guy lied about his cv. i mean, if u aren't faking it until u 
>>>>>>>>>>> make it, are you even really trying??? cons act like there 
>>>>>>>>>>> isn't rampant lying going on everywhere, cause they certainly 
>>>>>>>>>>> ain't suggesting anything that might fix this.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> idk like transparency...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> except oh wait, ya'll care more about privacy than the kind 
>>>>>>>>>>> of transparency that would prevent people from lying on cvs 
>>>>>>>>>>> so this whole article is really much ado about nothing tbh.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> boomers and self-defeating non-solutions: name a more iconic duo
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> BREAKING: Prof Jason Arday has resigned from the University 
>>>>>>>>>>>> of Cambridge after The Telegraph revealed he falsely claimed 
>>>>>>>>>>>> to have published a book. - The Telegraph
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> NOTHING TO SEE HERE MOVE ALONG PLEASE
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> what is there to see here that you actually have any answers for?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's all about Jason Arday and the book he wrote, like the paper 
>>>>>>>> you're writing, Nick:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  >get diagnosed autistic at 3
>>>>>>>>  >claim non-verbal until 11
>>>>>>>>  >claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign
>>>>>>>>  >claim you couldn't read until 18, but still leave school w/ 
>>>>>>>> two GCSEs
>>>>>>>>  >claim joining pro snooker tour at 10, one year before you 
>>>>>>>> could speak
>>>>>>>>  >claim you came out of a football academy & played professionally
>>>>>>>>  >claim you were on Seven Up, a series that tracked a group of 
>>>>>>>> seven year olds as they grew up, airing first 21 years before 
>>>>>>>> you were born
>>>>>>>>  >have the BBC confirm you weren't on the show because not time 
>>>>>>>> traveller
>>>>>>>>  >claim 30 marathons in 35 days, the last 9 on a broken leg 
>>>>>>>> swollen to twice its size
>>>>>>>>  >claim to have run 600 miles in six days, when the men's record 
>>>>>>>> is 650
>>>>>>>>  >have no recorded race time anywhere because why bother
>>>>>>>>  >have nobody in the ultra community ever hear of you
>>>>>>>>  >say £5.5m raised for 70+ charities by 2024
>>>>>>>>  >tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras 
>>>>>>>> (no record again) raised £5m
>>>>>>>>  >submit a 401-page PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages 
>>>>>>>> matching another student's 2009 thesis
>>>>>>>>  >have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, odds
>>>>>>>>  >carry over her copy-editing errors
>>>>>>>>  >get the PhD anyway
>>>>>>>>  >lift quotes into papers & present them as interviews you 
>>>>>>>> conducted yourself
>>>>>>>>  >get a full chair at Glasgow by 2021
>>>>>>>>  >get Cambridge at 37, youngest black professor in 900 years
>>>>>>>>  >guest edit the Today programme
>>>>>>>>  >collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin & St Mary's
>>>>>>>>  >have a Cambridge autism professor circulate “URGENT PLEASE 
>>>>>>>> SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>>>>>>>>  >write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, 
>>>>>>>> rape & death l threats, bananas, bullets in the post, corrosive 
>>>>>>>> substances & mutilated animals
>>>>>>>>  >photograph none of it
>>>>>>>>  >claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>>>>>>>>  >appear on no CCTV either time
>>>>>>>>  >tell nobody AT THE TIME
>>>>>>>>  >claim a severed pig's head arrived at your parents' house
>>>>>>>>  >claim police traced it to a butcher who sold a “whole hog" 
>>>>>>>> that morning
>>>>>>>>  >have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>>>>>>>>  >have the Met say the whole account is categorically incorrect
>>>>>>>>  >call it "a modern day lynching" on a podcast in Sept 2025
>>>>>>>>  >give a keynote in April 2026 about a playbook conservatives 
>>>>>>>> use to hunt black academics
>>>>>>>>  >get cleared in March 2026 by a panel you asked to weigh the 
>>>>>>>> "war on critical race theory"
>>>>>>>>  >blame the copied text on autistic mimicry & on a supervisor 
>>>>>>>> who left & one you never even met
>>>>>>>>  >turn 600 miles in six days into twelve days
>>>>>>>>  >get Solent to delete the running claims
>>>>>>>>  >get 13,000 signatures & three Cambridge college heads to vouch 
>>>>>>>> for text they never read
>>>>>>>>  >have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>>>>>>>>  >have a ghostwritten memoir to be released August 27
>>>>>>>>  >watch people still stand for you because you're black
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i mean have u seen our president dud? none of these really 
>>>>>>> compare, so it's laughable that you are about some random-ass 
>>>>>>> academic
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, I guess it goes without saying that nobody on this board can 
>>>>>> compare to all your accomplishments. That being said, what 
>>>>>> happened to the academic paper you wrote?
>>>>>
>>>>> lol i attack ur gay bestie trump so u try to attack me back? get a 
>>>>> room dud
>>>>>
>>>> The most interesting man on the planet!
>>>>
>>>> He ran a marathon because it was on his way.
>>>
>>> u came HERE to get eNlIgHtEnEd???
>>>
>> The... 
> 🤮🤮🤮 sorry i threw up before finishing the read u creepy fuck
> 
You came here to read, you crazy fuck?