The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The GuardianOpinionUniversity of CambridgeThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the leftJason OkundayeThe Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. Allegations of extensive plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, completed at Liverpool John Moores University, recently made their way from the Substack of self-described “race realist” academic Nathan Cofnas into the national press. The defence of Arday had rested on the fact that an investigation had already been conducted, and cleared him of plagiarism.
- ▪Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The GuardianOpinionUniversity of CambridgeThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the leftJason Okunday
- ▪Allegations of extensive plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, completed at Liverpool John Moores University, recently made their way from the Substack of self-described “race realist” academic Nathan Cofnas into the national press.
- ▪The defence of Arday had rested on the fact that an investigation had already been conducted, and cleared him of plagiarism.
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Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The GuardianOpinionUniversity of CambridgeThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the leftJason OkundayeThe Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equalityThu 6 Aug 2026 01.00 EDTShare‘To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.” That was the breathtaking response of Prof Jason Arday when the Guardian interrogated the details he provided of an alleged racist campaign of intimidation against him, which involved a severed pig’s head, a masked man wielding a knife and bullets in the post.
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