Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself.

Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday, who has been accused of considerable plagiarism in his academic work, gave an interview to The Times at the end of a scandal-plagued week in which swirling questions about his professional integrity have turned him into the next Stephen Glass. Arday, who became the youngest black professor at Cambridge at age 37 in 2023, insisted to the British news outlet that “what I am not is a liar.”

A key foundation to the lore surrounding Arday, which he has repeatedly stoked in interviews and other public statements dating back at least 16 years, is that at a young age he established lofty ambitions about raising money for charity and then beat even his own expectations by raising millions of pounds. By 2024, multiple sources, including a university that gave hi…