Jason Arday Isn't the Biggest Academic Fruitcake.

When Cambridge University appointed Jason Arday as its youngest black professor it released a video of his head of department greeting him in person.

“We are so lucky to have you,” burbled Professor Hilary Cremin as she gripped Arday’s hands like a novice nun being introduced to the Pope.

“You are the best in the world in terms of the research you do,” she added. A claim destined to become the butt of endless jokes as this young black Pope’s serial plagiarism surfaced.

Following Arday’s resignation there has been almost universal bafflement that Cremin, who led the team that appointed him, failed to question his absurdly unlikely claims including feats of athleticism the Bionic Man would have struggled to beat.

Did Arday exercise some kind of Svengali-like charm over Cremin and her team?

Or were the academics just unbelievably gullible? The real explanation is much more worrying. For Arday’s appointment is merely the most egregious example yet of how our educational system is succumbing to a bizzare racialised ideology.

Supporters of this ideology like Hilary Cremin openly despise the traditional attachment of academic culture to facts and the impartial pursuit of knowledge. Instead they argue educational institutions should prioritise political activism against the racial injustice, militarism and violence for which they claim white people are uniquely responsible.

So let’s explore the strange imagination of Professor Hilary Cremin.

It’s an Alice in the Looking Glass world of circular arguments, wild exaggeration and breathtakingly self-righteous hypocrisy that allows Cremin to pontificate about the alleged racism of ordinary people when, as I’ve discovered, her own work just happens to be based on the theories of a vicious antisemite.

If you thought Jason Arday was a fruitcake wait till you hear about the views of his boss and the man who founded her discipline.