This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.
Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles awayWomen in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.www.bbc.co.uk
“There were legitimate questions about academic practice that he refused to answer — journalists must be free to ask anyone difficult questions, even star professors.” www.thetimes.com/article/77e2...
Jason Arday: Police investigated journalist who questioned professorMet officers spent four months looking into claim of harassment after inquiries were made to the academic who is caught up in a plagiarism scandalwww.thetimes.com
Is it him defending plagiarism/Jason Arday? How does Zack manage to be on the wrong side of every issue? It's wholly impressive.
The dimension of the Arday affair which is most disgraceful is his and/or the University of Cambridge’s use of lawfare, including calling the police, to silence a reputable journalist. Knowledge grows through criticism. This tarnishes the reputation of UK HE www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
What I wonder about Jason Arday is is that his real name? Why has no-one come forward to say "I went to school with him - he never spoke", or more likely, "I went to school with him and he was really entertaining 'cos of all the scrapes he got into, but you couldn't believe a work he said"?
Jason Arday, who received media attention for becoming the youngest black professor ever at Cambridge in England, has recently come under scrutiny for allegedly fabricating his professional affiliations and plagiarizing his academic work. Now, another line on his résumé is in doubt.
Jason Arday Cambridge: False Glasgow University Job Claim Adds to Scrutiny Around Professor Jason Arday Cambridge is at the center of renewed public scrutiny after a University of Glasgow spokesperson confirmed that the Cambridge professor was never a visiting professor at the institution,…
Jason Arday Cambridge: False Glasgow University Job Claim Adds to Scrutiny Around ProfessorJason Arday Cambridge is at the center of renewed public scrutiny after a University of Glasgow spokesperson confirmed that the Cambridge professor was never a visiting professor at the institution, contradicting a claim that appeared on his University of Cambridge faculty profile. The latest development comes amid wider attention surrounding allegations about parts of Arday's academic record, professional biography, and previous public statements.usahousinginformation.com
"it's not the crime, it's the cover-up" Who set Carter-Ruck & the Metropolitan Police on Jack Grove of Times Higher Education? If Arday, he's no innocent If Cambridge University, it's worse It's corruption -- use of public money to hush up a scandal www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
The Cambridge sociologist, who is accused of plagiarism and embellishing his feats for charity, said he was a visiting professor, which the Scottish university denies ➡️ https://www.h24.news/J11
What a deeply disappointing thing to wake up and read in the Cambridge University alumni magazine. It’s not that I disagree with absolutely everything it says, but the aims it sets out would be highly unlikely to be achieved by the methods proposed. www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...
This idea must die- ‘The school system is broken beyond repair’Professor Hilary Cremin believes the status quo for the education system is becoming untenable, and has some ideas about what might come next.www.alumni.cam.ac.uk
'In Rewilding Education, Prof. Hilary Cremin argues that modern schooling is defined by an obsession with standardisation and outdated thinking, while it fails to nurture creativity, critical thought, or the physical and mental health of students and teachers.' content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/scho...
Schools are educating children for a vanishing future. Is it time to ‘rewild’ the system?content.educ.cam.ac.uk
It was preposterous that amnesty characterised a trauma informed service to support women who have been subject to sexual and domestic violence as anti rights. There was an impact on service users and this shows an impact on staff. No wonder those involved were and remain so angry
Inside JK Rowling’s rape support centre that took on Amnesty – and wonAfter defeating ‘anti-rights’ claims, Beira’s Place is standing firm against the trans lobby by providing female-only supportwww.telegraph.co.uk
If it was not possible & in fact easy to get people to believe stuff (esp. if they want to believe it, or think it's in their interests to), con man would not be the excellent profession it always has been.
(Blaming his supervisors is just bad taste. It's not the role of your PhD supervisor to teach you not to be a plagiarist). But part of the responsibility for this whole fiasco lies with the academic establishment. They hyped him up because they were just too eager to believe his fairytales. 2/2
This is pretty bad. Prof. Arday has built a web of lies from which he is unable to extricate himself. I am not even sure he realizes it: it's quite possible he believes them. That makes his predicament even more tragic. Of course, he is fully responsible for his academic misconduct. 1/2
The GuardianPlaybooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
Me on Jason Arday. spectator.com/article/camb...
Cambridge is coming out very badly from the Jason Arday affairI’ve never met Professor Jason Arday. I don’t know whether he has genuinely run 600 miles in six days. I also genuinely don’t know the truth about the remarkable similarities between parts of his doct...spectator.com
I was a fan of Alan's; I bought one of his books. But he destroyed his credibility with me when he refused to acknowledge the threat from postmodernism. Those who failed to do due diligence on Jason Arday are responsible for Arday's fate & for gifting a propaganda bonanza to the right.
The most pitiful person in the Cambridge Fraud Scandal, as nominated by Andrew Gelman (Prof of Statistics at Columbia, co-writer of Bayesian Data Analysis) Not Jason Arday, but the unnamed University "spokesperson for Cambridge" spouting obvious untruths statmodeling.substack.com/p/whos-the-m...
‘Vice-Chancellor Vira is not the most pitiful person in this story. Yes, Vira described Arday as “an exceptional scholar”--an inaccurate description, unless “exceptional” includes fraud as part of its ambit--but this well-paid administrator will face no consequences for this dereliction of duty.’
Who's the most pitiful person in the Cambridge University fraud scandal?It's not who you think.statmodeling.substack.com
Arday case becoming a fascinating episode. First there were folks trying to dismiss/downplay the plagiarism because it came from a “race realist.” But now also clear other side was overly credulous of exaggerated claims of Arday’s fabulism/incompetence. Like the world is grifters all the way down.