Re: Why progressives were desperate to believe Jason Arday

On 8/8/2026 2:17 PM, Dude wrote:
> 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?
 >
So, I need to figure this out.

"Jason Arday has single-handedly blown up Cambridge University and the 
entire DEI industrial complex. How do I do that?" - Northern Barbarian, X