This month, the university announced it would open a fresh investigation after it said it received “new information” about Arday’s qualifications and career.Other elements of Arday’s life story were increasingly questioned, including claims of prodigious money-raising for charity and feats of long-distance running. He was also challenged about whether he was nonverbal until the age of 11, as well as being illiterate until 18. It is understood Cambridge has paused the investigation while Arday’s family are grieving, and will consider whether to reopen it in due course.
Is there much point now?
Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, Arday’s friend and former colleague, told Times Radio he thought the university should proceed with the investigation. “We should see what we learn from it. This is the whole purpose of investigations,” he said.
Oh Simon, how naive! The purpose of them is to exonerate the people who made the errors in the first place. The people who employed and lauded this liar and fantascist and published his every utterance when a moment's reflection should have had them scratching their head at the implausibility of it.
Andy Burnham, the prime minister, described Arday’s death as a “tragedy on so many levels” and urged a “moment of reflection”.
Yes, that's needed, a moment to reflect on the cancer of identity politics and the ruin they have made of all aspects of life, but particularly further education and the arts. But I doubt that's what he meant.
The vigil was organised by Arday's postdoctoral students and was held on Sunday afternoon. Kahn added: "Hold your friends close and know that we stand strong because we stand together. "Now, there is a time for anger, of justifiable anger, and that time will come - but today is not that day. "Today is about celebrating the life of a brilliant man, Professor Jason Arday. "Today we share the ways Jason made a difference in our lives and in the lives of those around us."
It seems it would suit some people to declare this man Britain's George Floyd, for racial reasons.
She said there would be a "promise to seek justice" for him. Another student told the crowd: "Racism did this."
Is there no one who will stand up to the racial grievance industry that's being incubated in our halls of learning?
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The whole point of an 'investigation' or an 'inquiry' is to spread the blame so thin that no one and no process carries any significant risk of censure. Plus by the time that the 'lessons to be learned' have been identified there will be nobody around to ensure they are implemented.
Cynical, moi?
I’m just waiting for the bit where someone says that, since exaggeration and hyperbole are part of his ancestral African culture, the fictitious parts of his memoir and CV were not fabrication or lies but simply a valid and laudable expression of his story-telling heritage.
Black lies matter
Jaded
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