The list of achievements of Jason Arday, the alleged academic fantasist, long-distance runner, inventor of Weetabix and first man on the moon, just keep on coming. The Daily Sceptic’s own Toby Young has aptly compared Arday to an alter ego of Sacha Baron Cohen, the Ali G creator, who responds to every slight query about his amazing past with an instant, interrogation-killing, “Is it ‘cos I is black?” Myself, I did wonder if, with all the plagiarism charges, incredible claims about youthful athletic running prowess and historic inability to write, Jason Arday may instead have been Jeffrey Archer in disguise. Suspiciously, they even have the same initials.
There may be another possibility. It now turns out that, in 2018, Professor Arday unsuccessfully stood for election as a local councillor in London’s Purley and Woodcote ward for the Labour Party, securing only 953 votes (pleading dyscalculia, he said 953 million and demanded a recount). But was the whole thing just another wider spoof from this great satirist? Several rival parties at the time seem to have deliberately put forward candidates whose curiously relevant surnames hint at what they did not feel could yet be said openly at this point. The significance of the Lib Dems’ Frances Margarett CONN is obvious, whilst Donald Singleton SPEAKMAN is a clear sceptical reference to Arday’s claim to have been mute until the age of 11.
Yet the hitherto-secret connections between Mr Arday and the Labour Party may go further even than
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Steven, in your first sentence you have missed something out.
Jason Arday has been reminding anyone who will listen that not only was he the first man on the Moon, but he was the first BLACK man on the Moon.
I also see parallels between Jason Arday and Greta Thunberg. The joy of being flagellated by autistic, woke, savants.
So, politicians lie and not only is that expected, it’s almost mandatory.
But academia? The people I worked with in unis would have jumped all over lies and plagiarism from the get go. I’m glad I got out over 30 years ago.
Me too.
Apparently Arday is going ahead with publishing his book, only now they have decided to put it in the comedy section.
A person who’s autobiography is placed in the fiction section
The autobiography subsection of fiction would be fairly well populated.
Andy Burnham only seems to be any kind of leader if people scream loud enough to catch his attention over any particular grievance at the time ie: Andrew Harper
A real leader would have preempted the situation by demanding to keep these two pieces of sh!t behind bars well before anyone had to highlight the point! or maybe its a blind to let out all the other pieces of sh!t while everyone is distracted by a particular disgrace?
Academia functioned better when it was out of the spotlight.
Just like politics, it’s now largely theatre.
Both have become circus, where the clowns are the smartest and most subversive act.
After 30 years of the Uniparty the clowns want their clown car back.