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[DoubleMercury @DoubleMercury]

@NoLongerTheFuzz Jesus, he chatty patty doesn’t shut up!

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@NoLongerTheFuzz @AjaTheEmpress I refuse to spend money that goes to that psychopath

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@ToonDazza @Cambridge_Uni Wait till you hear how even his autism is fake! Lol its coming out!

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@GrumpyOW @NoLongerTheFuzz @benryanwriter regular primary school… not for mute kids. Of course

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

Heathbrook Primary congratulating Jason Arday on his appointment in 2023. No mention of him being non-verbal, just the fact that he was from a disadvantaged background.

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@Banksycat @NoLongerTheFuzz @benryanwriter

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[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

Somebody just claimed they were IN THE CLASSROOM with him.

Two accounts. Only one can be true. Arday says he was mute until eleven. A man now says otherwise, and he's not vague about it.

He names the school, Heathbrook, Battersea. Says a cousin was actually IN Arday's class, a second point of contact, not just his own memory. Says they travelled together by van to Sunday school, then after-school club nights, Tuesdays or Thursdays, ping pong, kickball, a Top Shop nearby they'd hang round. Places Arday specifically in that van, on a specific route, on specific days.

He describes the whole family by name and appearance, distinctive Afros, a local nickname for them, “the Aldays.” That's not a vague memory. That's the kind of detail a community actually carries.

His claim is direct. Never mute. Talking the whole time.

I can't prove it. Neither can you. One anonymous claim against a story already collapsing everywhere else.

But I've been picking at this exact thread for hours. The speech therapy that never got logged. The school that was never named. The paperwork that should exist and doesn't. It never added up, and I said so before a single TikTok existed to back it up.

Genuine delays get LOGGED. Always have. NHS records. School files. Therapist notes. Decades before any of this story was ever told.

So this isn't a random claim landing out of nowhere. It's the FIRST specific, checkable name in twenty years of a story with no paper trail at all, and now a second person, a cousin, allegedly placed inside the very classroom.

Investigate it properly. The school. The cousin. The records, if they exist either way.

If it's a lie, it goes nowhere.

If it's true, it's the piece I said was missing before anyone else was even looking.

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@yuanyi_z @tlitb Nah, guy cant tell a single truth. Autism fake too

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@v_j_freeman Nope. No, you are wrong! NOBODY has faced bigger challenges! NOBODY has triumphed this way! Miracle boy! Miracle man!

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

This is going to be in my third article - but I am too outraged to wait to tell you. 😡

Jason Arday was never trained as a sociologist.

Jason Arday has no degree, no Master’s and no PhD in Sociology. None. Zero.

His entire formal academic training is in Education and Physical Education:

BA in Education Studies and Physical Education
MA in Education and Pedagogy
A second Master’s in Education
PhD in Education — specifically on peer-mentoring among student teachers training to become PE teachers

That is a doctorate in physical-education teacher training.

It is not sociology.

It contains no sociological theory, no sociological methods, and no sustained engagement with the core literature of the discipline.

Yet within a few years the same man was:

Appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Durham
Put in front of students teaching modules called Sociology of Education and Societies in Transition

Then made Professor of the Sociology of Education at Glasgow

Then made Professor of the Sociology of Education at Cambridge

Students were paying close to ten thousand pounds a year. Some of that money was buying teaching and supervision from a man whose highest qualification in the subject he was employed to profess was nothing.
He had never studied sociology as an undergraduate, never taken a Master’s in it, and never written a doctoral thesis in it.

The word “Sociology” appeared only in the job title.

Institutions simply accepted the re-description. A PE-and-education academic was re-labelled a sociologist and students were charged elite university fees to be taught by him.

That is not an academic career progression. That is a category error that successive universities chose not to notice. My mind has been blown by this revelation. No wonder his students report him leaning on desks talking about celebrities and inequality! He appears to have known absolutely nothing about the subject he was teaching!

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@latimeralder They did not fall for him. They knew. It is much worse.

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@Ecclesiasticu12 Oh but it is, coz Jackie is telling us! And she knows better!

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

Twenty years ago the revelation that James Frey had fabricated much of his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, was a scandal that brought the publishing world to its knees, especially after his editor admitted they didn't make a practice of ensuring books they published were fact checked.

Simon & Schuster is about to publish a memoir by a man who according to a mountain of evidence is a serial fabulist. They will publish this book already knowing all this. And yet they persist.

[Jules Horn @juleshorn01]

I used to think I needed more.

More workouts.
More supplements.
More discipline.

But the biggest change in how my body felt came from something much simpler.

Just 8 minutes of mindful movement every morning.

These aren’t random exercises.

They’re rhythmic movements that help restore the body’s natural ability to move, breathe, and regulate itself.

When I practice them consistently, I notice:

• Less stiffness when I wake up.
• Better posture without thinking about it.
• Freer shoulders and hips.
• A calmer nervous system.
• More energy throughout the day.
• My body simply feels, lighter.

The goal isn’t to burn calories.

It’s to restore movement that modern life has taken away.

When your body moves rhythmically, your fascia glides more easily, your joints stay nourished, your breath deepens, and your nervous system receives a signal that you’re safe enough to let go of unnecessary tension.

That’s why this has become my non-negotiable morning ritual.

These 8 minutes have done more for my body than chasing the “perfect” workout ever did.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The Atlantic reads Jason Arday's memoir, and finds his life story was even more inspirational than we thought

He was beaten so badly as a teen he became an epileptic. When the boys who did this were caught, he magnanimously told the judge he didn't want them to go to prison.

"By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter."

You complain you can't get a girlfriend.

Chad Arday was going through college illiterate, had his girlfriend write out his applications, and managed to father a child.

He then got a teaching job. But he didn't have money, so he started working at a supermarket from 11 PM to 5AM, then a cleaner from 5:30 AM to 7:30 AM.

Remember the guys who beat him up? It turns out that two of the muggers ended up being his students. They were so moved by his compassion, that they'd turned their lives around and were now helping at risk youth.

As his dissertation approached, Arday got a brain tumor and lost his memory.

"More troubles follow in the years ahead: Arday’s brain tumor returns; he splits up with his wife; he suffers autistic burnout during the coronavirus pandemic and can’t get out of bed. He decides to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, but at the very last minute, he listens to his favorite song."

The author of the piece writes: "I reached out to the book’s fact-checker to ask whether this and several other stories from the book had been verified, but she did not respond."

The Atlantic also got its hands on his book proposal. There are even more incredible stories in it. As a teenager, Arday got hit by a car and went into a coma. The doctor told his parents to pull the plug, but he refused. There's also a bout of testicular cancer that shows up in the proposal but is not in the book.

I guess there wasn't enough room for all of that given all of the other amazing stories in his life.

Oh, and the book isn't being pulled. Simon & Schuster are still going to publish it next week. The haters are just one more obstacle Arday has overcome.

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“Jason is obviously a very talented man”… this is what we are dealing with. Idiots. Even when it is right in front of their face! Morons.

[Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mckenzie @JacquiMckenzie6]

Most of us who signed the open letter in support of former Cambridge Professor, Jason Arday, has had the media on our case for the past couple of days.

I signed the letter.

Jason's resignation seemed bound to happen and once Cambridge University started its own investigation, inevitable.

Jason was clearly hounded by people with an agenda, particularly ones with distasteful and discredited views on race. They in turn were fuelled by a ravenous media which thrives on people's downfall, and other nefarious commentators.

But Jason's fate was sealed as the discussion moved from plagiarism and his scholarship, to his character, in a way we've not seen before. And there are plenty of accusations of plagiarism. Academia in the UK is overwhelmingly white so therefore faculty plagiarism is going to be overwhelmingly white. We read about these cases from time to time. I don't recall the sort of forensic examination of every facet of the protagonist's life as I've seen in this case. I don't recall the elderly parents of anyone being doorsteped.

African and Asian heritage professionals are over surveilled, micro managed and investigated. This is simply a fact; report after report in some professions, including law and medicine, tell the tale. So whereas media presenters are trying to catch
us out when they ask whether race is a factor in this case, it is fair for me, who's worked in the UK for 40 plus years, including as a race equality officer, to say that whilst we don't know the facts in this particular case, we do know the uncomfortable truth that the likelihood is high and as luck would have it, the end might well have justified the means. But this isn't always the case!

I signed the open letter when I heard that Liverpool John Moores had cleared Jason of plagiarism. Are they maintaining their position? Is he innocent of this? Was the problem poor citation, or something else? Who amongst us know the facts?

This sorry tale does raise issues about the quality of the work done in some of these institutions, including the hallowed ones, and about how autism and neurodivergency might play out in the final analysis. If the multiple stories portrayed as fact turn out to be fantasy, exaggeration or invention, what caused this? Did this young man feel the need to emblish facts to fit in to what is a high, and possibly overachievening, world?

Jason is obviously a very talented young man whatever the facts turn out to be. I hope he receives the best support, love and care from his friends and family and can reset and go on to use his talents.

Whatever the facts are on his extra curricular activities and on the plagiarism when things are examined, Jason has, seemingly, more talent than most of the people celebrating his downfall. Not sure many of us can write a PhD even with copied paragraphs, run a marathon, or have any inclination to do anything useful for our communities. It's been interesting to hear his bright students speak about him and credit him with their own development.

I was happy when I read about his appointment. It is rare to see a young Black person in the space he occupied. I am sad to read about his resignation, the confusion, the gotcha comments, and the implications for those who seek to put their head above the parapet only to be told you don't belong and, we'll get you one way or the other.

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@daliagebrial SOOOOOOO Much talent Dalia!! So much!! You silly!

[William Crawley @williamcrawley]

Birkbeck, University of London, has confirmed that Jason Arday holds no degree from them in any discipline.

Their Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sally Wheeler, spoke with us on #BBCTalkback today. Listen again on BBCSounds.

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@TheOnlyGuru She looks DERANGED!