I wrote about the Jason Arday saga yesterday, but there’s much more to say.
First off, we need to talk about the hypocrisy of it.
The left spent over a decade trying to destroy people’s lives, get them censored and fired for disagreeing with their cultish dogma, hound them out of the public square, and all the rest. They succeeded, often. They simultaneously mocked and vilified anyone who pointed out this Maoist scumbaggery, said cancel culture was a myth, and so on.
The media massively supported them in all of this, lavishing attention and praise on wacky progressive ideas and ideologues, while smearing those who pushed back as racist, far right, white supremacist, etc.
Now the exact same people are turning around and calling legitimate media scrutiny of one the left’s most high profile and public representatives a ‘lynching’ and an ‘assassination’, etc (those are direct quotes - see my article from yesterday or this thread if you don’t believe me). It’s just 100% transparent, morally and intellectually inconsistent bollocks. Whipped up to help them further their agenda and deflect attention away from the
Arday’s death is very sad. It does not undermine any of the above, however.
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One thing I have found funny about the whole affair is how unbelievably humiliating it’s been for the race-baiting communists over at Novara Media, and their ilk. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch this video (or at least, as much of it as you can stomach).
As I’ve written and spoken about at length in the past, they tried so hard to cosplay as 'non-woke' once it went out of fashion, to pretend they were never woke to begin with, and to gaslight us into believing the real woke people were right wing ‘zionists’ all along.
They put on fake working class accents, pretended to like football, occasionally flew England flags during the world cup, and said stuff like 'it's ridiculous that we don't police antisocial behaviour', as if we'd forget it was them who claimed it was 'racist' to police antisocial behaviour for years. But then, 2020-style identitarianism came roaring back, momentarily, after Arday's death. And they absolutely capitulated, filming themselves making hostage-style, tearful apologies - the picture at the top of this post is a screengrab from one of them, featuring the unbearable Aaron Bastani - in which they physically shake with remorse. Why? Because one or two of them dared to point out that Arday spoke a lot of crap. Which he did. Hilarious. So degrading. They dropped their whole act the moment they received even the mildest pushback from their own side.
What I’ve not been able to cover in this post is the appalling amount of fawning publicity the BBC, our supposedly unbiased state broadcaster, gave Arday. This is so shocking and so egregious that it warrants an entire essay of its own. I don’t have time to write that now but plan to do so in the coming days if I can, please hit subscribe to receive it. As a starting point though, you should read this article in the Spectator on that topic by Steven Edgington. Annoyingly it’s behind a paywall but here’s a lengthy quote from it, which gives you an idea of just how complicit the BBC is in pushing the racial grievance narrative:
‘The BBC’s coverage of the Jason Arday scandal is something of a scandal itself. The corporation spent years uncritically promoting the myth of Arday. Prior to July 2026, the broadcaster produced at least 11 radio programmes (totalling nearly six hours of Arday content), four news articles, and two TV interviews championing the academic and repeating his false claims.
When the initial story broke about his plagiarism and lies, the BBC doubled down on its defence of the academic. The first article which I would say features real criticism of the former professor was published on 6 August, a day after he resigned, more than two weeks after the original Arday exposé was published on Substack, and six years after the BBC’s first hagiographic piece about the late academic.
In that time journalists across the world published revelations detailing Arday’s long history of lies and exaggerations, from publications as diverse as the Telegraph and the Daily Mail to the Guardian and the New York Times. For weeks, the BBC ignored them all.
Following Arday’s death, the corporation has returned to its less-than-impartial reporting of the matter. Throughout the saga, the BBC has spent more resources smearing Arday’s exposer, the former Cambridge academic Nathan Cofnas, and participated in a genuine witch hunt against him. Even in articles detailing accusations of plagiarism against Arday, it is clear that the real enemy of the story was the infamous ‘race realist’ Cofnas.’
Bear in mind, ‘the license fee payer’ is funding this stuff. Unforgivable.
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Max Klinger@MaxE2review
This guy is the principal of my old Cambridge college, Homerton. Here he totally falsely calls the death of Arday a ‘lynching’. This is complete, unfettered, dogma, spoken to shut down legitimate scrutiny of the ideological corruption of our elite universities. Imagine being a
Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz
FUCK ME. Public ASSASSINATION. The left are VILE. NO ACCOUNTABILITY. “The dogs of Hell started on Jason Arday. “
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Max Klinger@MaxE2review
‘Mum, I have terrible news. I just lynched a man.’ ‘Good god. What exactly did you do?’ ‘I wrote a tweet criticising his terrible scholarship’ These people are in a cult. They will invent extreme oppression where it doesn’t exist to prevent their dogmatic nonsense being
3:40 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 65.4K Views
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If you enjoyed this, you might also like this essay:
Statistics vs the racial grievance grift
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February 18, 2024
This three minute clip from a talk by Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist, is worth watching. It provides an insight into the level of pushback anyone who seeks to challenge The Narrative around race is likely to receive. ‘People lose their minds’, he says. That’s about right.
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