Weekend 8th August 2026

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1. pugnazious says:

   August 9, 2026 at 10:26 am

   Remarkable how the BBC is almost completely ignoring the fantasy fabulist world of Jason Arday, the black poster boy for Guardianistas. There’s a huge amount of investigation and coverage across the media with even the Guardian doing a hitjob on him

   https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/aug/01/playbooks-plagiarism-pigs-head-new-claims-surrounding-cambridge-professor-jason-arday

   ….but the BBC? Barely a ripple in its pool of calm…never mind that the dubious decision based upon DEI and the lies this man told undoubtedly robbed genuine candidates of a job and put in place an unqualified academic to teach students rubbish.

   ‘Prof Deborah Prentice, the university’s vice-chancellor, is facing demands to refund the tuition fees of students who were taught by Mr Arday after they were “deceived about the nature of their education”.’

   Even black academics and journalists rip into Arday..

   ‘ The patronising assumption is that standards and truth are optional when evaluating a black professional. This is a slap in the face to the 160 or so black professors in Britain today who earned their chairs through gruelling intellectual labour, original research and the unglamorous grind of academia.

   It’s also an insult to the civil-rights titans who forged the path before us… giants who didn’t demand to be recognised based on sentiment. They forced a hostile establishment to respect them because their work was bulletproof.

   The ultimate casualty of the Arday scandal isn’t one man’s career, nor the bruised egos of those who rushed to his defence. The tragic reality is that Jason Arday has potentially done far more damage to black Britons than any racist agitator ever could.’

   And right there you might guess is the reason the BBC is downplaying this….set aside the fact that the BBC itself promoted the man relentlessly even allowing him to edit the Today programme. The BBC recognises the damage Arday and those who so eagerly adopted him without question due to the colour of his skin have done to the image of any black person in a high office or position as well as destroying the credibility, what there was of it, of DEI.
   The BBC is shamelessly covering up with an attempt at damage limitation…but that horse has bolted. If things turn much worse expect the usual BBC response ala Rochdale and Rotherham and so many other scandals…ignore, ignore, ignore and then when it’s obviously too big to ignore start pumping out programmes that claim the BBC was always at the forefront of criticism and produce indepth investigations of the damage that Arday has done…but of course qualified by a little side sneer that so much of the criticism is probably racism disguised as inconvenient fact….which was of course their basic premise in their first very minimalist reports as they constantly framed the criticism as coming from a suspected racist[in their opinion]…

   ‘The row erupted after another academic – self-defined “race realist” Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 – said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in Prof Jason Arday’s work and questioned some of his stated achievements.

   While some critics say the treatment of Arday, who is black, has been motivated by racism, others have said the claims of plagiarism were legitimate.’

   The irony of claiming it is racist to challenge someone like Arday because he is black but at the same time completely accept that such a person could be given a job because he is black seems to bypass the likes of the BBC.

   The rot is the infiltration of politicised lefties into positions of power in universities….

   ‘In my time at Cambridge, more than 40 years ago now, the masters of colleges were almost all distinguished academics. Today, a senior scholar with multiple highly rated publications to their name and an intimate knowledge of the university would struggle to even make the shortlist. Senior positions are routinely filled by former BBC and other Left-wing media personnel, ex-Labour politicians, civil servants and ethnically diverse mediocrities from the charity sector who spend their time plotting how to remove their college’s centuries-old “offensive” features.’

   And of course foreign academics who have mad axes to grind about white people..

   ‘Cambridge professors who hired Arday attacked ‘whiteness’ in education’

   ‘Academic who called for ‘re-education of Whites’ among those on panel that selected university’s youngest black professor

   Two academics who appointed Jason Arday to his Cambridge professorship published work attacking “whiteness” in education, The Telegraph can reveal.

   Michalinos Zembylas, professor of educational theory at the Open University of Cyprus, and Prof Anoop Nayak, of Newcastle University, were among four external academics chosen to sit on the nine-member panel that unanimously selected Mr Arday in 2022.
   The authors wrote: “Contrary to the impression that this move promotes self-loathing, a politics of anti-whiteness is precisely the re-education of Whites for a world shared with the other.”

   lol….what the hell are we wasting time and money on?…Prof Anoop Nayak…

   ‘I am a Social and Cultural Geographer who has specialisms in race, ethnicity and migration; masculinities and social change; youth transitions and inequalities.’

   Oh right…gobblygook….a teacher’s emotions can be resistance[to whiteness?]…Michalinos Zembylas…now we know why he latched onto Arday….identity is not facts or history and experience…it’s emotion and feelings….I feel like a woman..therefore I’m a woman….I feel like a professor thus I’m a professor…

   ‘This article illustrates the significance of teachers’ emotions in the construction of teacher identity by invoking a poststructuralist lens in discussing the place of emotion in identity formation. In suggesting a poststructuralist perspective of emotions and teacher identity, it is argued that teacher identity is constantly becoming in a context embedded in power relations, ideology, and culture. In theorizing about teacher identity two ideas are developed: first, that the construction of teacher identity is at bottom affective, and is dependent upon power and agency, i.e., power is understood as forming the identity and providing the very condition of its trajectory; and second, that an investigation of the emotional components of teacher identity yields a richer understanding of the teacher self. This discussion is motivated by a desire to develop analyses that investigate how teachers’ emotions can become sites of resistance and self-transformation. …’

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