A few days ago, we told you about the death of Jason Arday, Cambridge University's celebrated youngest black professor. Arday apparently committed suicide after he was outed as a plagiarist and a serial fabulist, but his supporters are saying he was murdered by the racist right-wing media, which "essentially achieved an indirect lynching" of the academic superstar.
A memorial was held for Arday on Monday, and Andy Ngo was there.
London — I’m at the memorial attended by thousands of DEI supporters and leftist radicals for disgraced academic and serial hoaxer Jason Arday. The speakers repeatedly target academic @nathancofnas for breaking the story about Arday’s plagiarism.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 17, 2026
Labour MP Diane Abbott was one… pic.twitter.com/S5HjRDZ4dD
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… of the speakers who smeared Cofnas.
Arday k—lled himself after journalists revealed he had lied about his academic work and purported major life accomplishments. He delayed the truth by siccing police and lawyers on journalists early on.
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Broadcaster Narinder Kaur says racism within the mainstream media is responsible for "Proffesor" Arday's death.
At the Proffesor Jason Arday vigil.
— Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) August 17, 2026
Diane Abbott visually emotional
racism within MSM is responsible for his death. pic.twitter.com/AKQTkSmUut
Racism is not responsible for Jason Arday's death, but if you want to go the route that it was the media that elevated his story, ignored gaps in his stories, and did adoring morning show segments about him, I'm open to listening to that. https://t.co/pUr24ZVw8P
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 18, 2026
This event has to be the most post-truth thing I’ve ever seen. One speaker said Arday had been assassinated, and here they’re chanting his name with cult-like reverence.
— Nick Dixon (@NickDixon) August 17, 2026
It doesn’t matter to them what Cambridge did, or left wing outlets like the Guardian, or Arday himself.
All…
"… facts are lost in a torrent of emotion and identity."
Nathan Cofnas is the biology professor who first outed Arday as a fraud:
There is an anti-Cofnas hate rally in Trafalgar Square with ~15,000 attendees. If I were in London there is a real possibility that I would be murdered.
— Nathan Cofnas (@nathancofnas) August 17, 2026
1000s of academics & journalists knew the truth about Jason Arday for more than a year. Now you know why no one said anything. https://t.co/V8Y0xzrRYG
Some background:
DEI Fraud and Cover-Up: https://t.co/ENXSP7I9hB
— Nathan Cofnas (@nathancofnas) July 21, 2026
It’s an open secret at Cambridge University, but everyone is afraid to speak out. Newspapers backed away after getting hit with legal threats.
Here, I tell the true story of Jason Arday—DEI superstar and the youngest black…
"… professor in the history of Cambridge."
Cofnas writes:
Arday has repeatedly made unequivocal assertions that he could not read, write, or even spell his own name until he was 18. But he left secondary school with General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) qualifications in Physical Education and Textiles. Despite being in vocational subjects, these tests require literacy, and they are normally taken at age 15 or 16. Based on publicly available information, it is possible to recreate a timeline that places Arday’s test date before age 18. It is conceivable that he received “special arrangements” to allow him to take the test with help from a reader and scribe. However, a write-up of his forthcoming memoir says that he “left secondary school with two GCSEs to his name, still barely able to read or write.” So he may be backing away from his original story.
30 marathons in 35 days and 300 miles in three days are feats of dubious believability. Wikipedia lists running 50 marathons in 50 days as one of the highlights of professional ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes’s career. 30 in 35 days is possible for an amateur, but only with intensive training and planning. 300 miles in three days is an even bigger stretch. For comparison, Yiannis Kouros, who has been described as “the greatest ultrarunner of all time,” set a world record in 1984 when he ran 359 miles in three days. Arday asserts that he was able to do all this because “If you have the will, it will always supersede skill”—a proposition that anyone with experience in athletics knows to be false.
However, it is impossible to prove or disprove Arday’s biographical claims without more direct evidence. Therefore, I will only address questions about his scholarship.
Here I present evidence that, starting with his PhD dissertation, Arday routinely passes off the words and ideas of others as his own. If one removes the apparently plagiarized material from his record, there is little or no real scholarship. I discuss the cover-up by senior administrators at Cambridge and the broader implications for free speech and DEI ideology.
Hans Mahncke notes that even Arday's PhD thesis had a typo in its title … most likely as the result of copying and pasting it from another source.
The worst part is Arday’s PhD thesis, which, if the media and the entire DEI regime had been honest for even a moment, should have ended this saga almost as soon as it began.
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 17, 2026
It is bad enough that the title of the thesis contains a grammatical error. What is infinitely worse is… https://t.co/vwUcxK5hhc pic.twitter.com/SdGTgB8HjA
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… is that the error itself was imported from a thesis he plagiarized. In the original, the apostrophe in “student teachers’ reflective practice” is correct because the reflective practice belongs to the student teachers. Arday then rearranged the wording, apparently to make the title look less obviously plagiarized, but was so careless in his deception that he left the apostrophe behind even though “student teachers” was no longer possessive.
And perhaps most damning of all, this thesis supposedly passed through the entire academic apparatus of supervision, review, assessment and examination without anyone noticing a glaring error in the title. It’s almost as if no one ever read the thing. They were handing out PhDs like candy and now they blame Nathan Cofnas for pointing it out.
This is the opening to one of Jason Arday’s papers.
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) August 17, 2026
It is virtually unreadable. Maybe the worst sentence ever written in the English language.
“Replete with espoused discourses of equality, diversity and inclusion within public bodies, is the UK, wherein lauded initiatives… pic.twitter.com/2RE0qX2UQg
… reward its universities’ commitments to increasing the access and positioning of ‘women’ in higher education.”
Cofnas notes how eager universities were to recruit this superstar:
After receiving a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University, he rocketed up the academic ladder as a scholar of racism, education, and inequality. In three years he went from senior lecturer at Roehampton (2018) to associate professor at Durham (2019) to professor at Glasgow (2021). Ivy League universities (plural) tried to recruit him, but he had his heart set on Oxford or Cambridge.
As someone mentioned the other day, it's tragic that he took his own life. He could have just owned up to his fabrications, and it would have blown over. "Racism" didn't "murder" him.
Complete nonsense. The only person responsible for his death his Arday himself. But if you're looking for an outside party to blame, look no further than all the enablers who let his lies carry him as far as they did.
— Sensei Seagal's body double (@mythPloughman) August 18, 2026
Racism in higher ed is more responsible for his death than anything the MSM did
— Barkus Aurelius (@frankly_spoke) August 18, 2026
You just aren’t capable of recognizing it as racism
"racism within MSM is responsible for his death."
— russian peasant, gulag escape artist (@doukhobour) August 18, 2026
Racism enabled Arday at every stage of his fraudulent career. Racism within academia and the media.
In that sense, but-for the systemic institutionalized racism of progressives, Arday would probably still be alive. Yes.
Nah, every single one of these twats are looking for a George Floyd, ain't gonna happen 🤷♂️
— Beyond Words (@youretheremate) August 17, 2026
Simon & Schuster just published Arday's autobiography, if you want to read his collected lies. It's called "Great and Unfortunate Things" and is Arday’s memoir "of overcoming remarkable challenges and responding to adversity with resilience." The publisher writes:
In Great and Unfortunate Things, we see how Arday went from being nonverbal as a child and illiterate until he was eighteen to scaling unimaginable heights as an adult. Without romanticizing the struggle, this is a story of determination against seemingly insurmountable odds—and of a family and a small group of believers whose compassion helped him see what is possible.
A powerful story for our moment, Arday’s journey is a testament to resilience, dignity, and the life-changing force of community in action.
"A small group of believers whose compassion for DEI pushed him well beyond his capabilities."
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