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Beagle said:
That’s just it though. I’d shut the whole fucking lot of the press down. Parasites
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The press are never going to change though as they compete to out scandal each other.

Just look at the abuse Murrell gets (deservedly in my opinion) but he could claim he is being hounded.
 
Well I don't think his wife is being entirely honest with what happened.

Back to the lad though do you think those who employed him as a lecturer should bare some of the responsibility?
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
Well I don't think his wife is being entirely honest with what happened.

Back to the lad though do you think those who employed him as a lecturer should bare some of the responsibility?
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You may not think she is being entirely honest but, until there’s evidence, then it’s just another Westminster witch-hunt to suppress the SNP.

Back to the lad. The whole uproar was only because he made a fool out of one of the last bastions of the English establishment with icing on the cake him being a black man.
 
Braehead Cabbage said:
Indeed.
Nae idea who he was or what he did or didn't do.
Seems strange to post about him in a thread about things that give you pleasure
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I posted when he was first found out to be a fraud and how someone was denied a job through this fraud.

That was all. All other replies are answering other posts.
 
There is no release from the unremitting darkness of the world and humanity scraping the basal void of existence.

The Abyss stares back in the full knowledge that it is the final arbiter and destination.

Kittens.
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
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This is just nonsense, and indicative of the parlous state of public discourse.

1) Going by his own words, evidently the guy speaking essentially "really liked Arday, because he speaks well, and was black, and I am too". That has precisely no bearing at all on Arday's quality as a scholar and academic.
2) He nevertheless praises him for his ability to communicate with a "vast and diverse audience" in a space that is (perniciously) "predominantly white". Which is it?
3) The sheer number and incredible scope and variety of Arday's outlandish claims, allied to both the blatant plagiarism, and also to the evident utter disregard for both due diligence and critical appraisal at Cambridge of all places, made this story uniquely and objectively newsworthy by any reasonable standards. This was not a "lynching", for pity's sake; and people who use the term know exactly what they're doing, and it's pathetic.
4) O'Brien's "oh-so-moved" posturing at the end made me want to hurl. Virtue-signalling at its finest, an absolute classic of the genre.

The fact is, if you've been anywhere near a top-tier university department in the last 20 years -- which so few of the people who weigh in on this topic have -- then you'd know that this whole sorry farrago has exposed the faultlines you'll have long known were there, and indeed the fatal flaws in the progressive/postmodern/identitarian worldview in general.

The mental gymnastics required to double down on it, though, rather than stop for even one solitary second to wonder "how the hell have we got here?", is frankly astonishing and depressing.
 
There are loads of folk who celebrate cancel culture when it suits them.

If it's the 'correct' people being canceled.

Cambridge uni must shoulder a substantial share of the blame.
 
Just out of interest what about the media pile on's with this lot? Are these the pile on's that are ok?

Starmer, Reeves, Salmond, Murrell, Sturgeon, Farage, Caroline Flack, Truss.

All happened in recent times.
 
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Every suicide is a tragedy. And nobody should ever be left to feel so desperate. Jason Arday was let down by a lot of senior people in many academic institutions. However, the attempt by the lunatic left, like in this video, to make him out to be a victim of racism, because of the colour of his skin really is something else. For perspective on this 'victim';

>be Jason Arday
>claim diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign by yourself
>claim couldn't read until 18, still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim you joined the pro snooker tour at 10, a year before you could speak
>claim you won so much at snooker your mom thought you were dealing drugs
>have the sport's database show just one amateur event, many years later, w/ zero prize money
>claim football academy & a pro career
>have Crystal Palace say no record
>have the real record show tier eight
>claim to have been on Seven Up, a series that first tracked 7 year olds as they grew up
>have it first air 28 years before you were actually seven years-old
>have BBC say you weren't on it, since you're not a time traveller
>claim youths at a bus stop beat you into a weeks-long coma
>claim you heard medics tell your parents to switch off life support
>claim you begged the judge to spare them
>claim they turned up years later as your students, hug them, become godfather to one's child
>claim 30 marathons in 35 days in 2010, the last nine on a broken leg swollen to twice its size
>add an epileptic fit in later tellings
>tell local paper you raised more than £100,000 since you were 17
>claim running 600 miles in six days as your final challenge, when the men's record is 650
>claim it came at the same time as a stroke
>have no race time on record anywhere, because why bother
>have nobody in the ultra world ever hear of you
>hand in a PhD on reflective practice w/ 100+ passages matching another student's 2009 thesis
>have 188 sentences come back identical or near identical, including her copy-editing errors
>match a second PhD & two published papers on top
>claim you did it in 2.5 years, working full time, w/ a brain tumor
>claim the tumor was cut out 2 weeks before the viva
>claim a stroke after the surgery
>claim you turned up & remembered nothing at all
>claim one supervision meeting in the whole doctorate
>get the PhD anyway
>publish a paper claiming focus groups w/ 32 black & minority students
>have the quotes match an epidemiologist's quotes
>have structure follow his too
>lift quotes into other papers & pass them off as interviews you conducted
>get a correction, not a retraction b/c well. . . .
>delete 18 of the 31 quotes
>get full chair at Glasgow
>tell TEDx crowd you've raised over £5m by age 36
>claim you were once watched a teacher tell a boy who wanted to be a concert pianist to aim lower
>retell sort in 2021 w/ the boy as a would-be astrophysicist
>retell it again in 2023 as your own & experience & open a Ch 4 film w/ it
>be youngest black prof in 900 years, and at Cambridge
>get BBC radio series on loneliness
>claim 70% of Brits live below the breadline
>be voted number 1 in the Disability Power 100
>collect honorary degrees from Solent, Anglia Ruskin, St Mary's, Westminster & London South Bank
>say you raised millions for 70+ charities
>claim a Palgrave book called Being Young, Black, and Male
>have Palgrave say it was never published
>claim water points built for WaterAid across SA & Africa
>have WaterAid webpage titled "Why we don't send volunteers abroad"
>list yourself as a visiting prof at Glasgow
>have Glasgow say “nope”
>list yourself as a visiting pro at Ohio State's Office of DEI
>have no record and have that office turn out to have shut in 2025
>have Birkbeck say no record of your master's
>have Nelson Mandela U say the adjunct post ended
>get a second paper corrected 2024
>tell a funeral directors' convention in New Orleans the ultras raised £5m alone, but no record again
>be named on more than $10m in UKRI & NIHR grants
>write to a minister claiming knife threats, assault, spitting, rape, & death threats, plus bananas, bullets, corrosive substances, & mutilated animals
>photograph none of it for some odd reason!
>claim a masked man w/ a knife cornered you in the faculty twice
>show up on no CCTV either time
>tell nobody AT THE TIME
>claim police traced a severed pig's head at your parents' house to a butcher who'd sold a "whole hog" that morning
>have the butcher say no officer ever came in
>have the Met call the whole tale “categorically incorrect"
>say you’re experiencing a modern day lynching on a podcast
>have the ASA make your speaking agency strip unbacked claims
>hire Carter-Ruck & get Times Higher Education to kill a finished story
>report their journalist to Scotland Yard for emailing you questions about your record
>have officers tell him to stop, your mental health was hurt
>report a retired professor too, have Devon & Cornwall decline to bother
>have the Met chief later admit "we dropped the ball on that one"
>get cleared by a panel you asked to weigh the "war on critical race theory"
>have 188 matching sentences called an honest & reasonable error
>do keynote on the playbook conservatives use to hunt black academics b/c beyond reproach
>have the Times find participant 11 in study is three different people
>have the same quotes come out of different mouths 25 times across three papers
>have the sexes in your paper add up to 110%
>have false funding declarations
>have an outside expert say there is no question the plagiarism is extensive
>have a Cambridge autism professor send round "URGENT PLEASE SIGN ANTI RACISM LETTER"
>get 13,000 names & three Cambridge heads vouching for text they never read
>have Cambridge call it a "vile smear campaign"
>blame autistic mimicry, a l supervisor who left, & one you never met
>call the campaign racially motivated
>say "what I am not is a liar"
>turn 600 miles of margarine in six days into twelve
>have Anglia Ruskin edit your citation page the day the Cofnas piece dropped
>get Solent to delete the running claims
>have the TEDx video go private
>have your Jesus College page quietly turn Professorial Fellow into l Fellow & a Liverpool master's vanish
>have academics call for a regulator probe, have the Office for Students decline to comment
>have Cambridge open a probe into your qualifications & honorary appointments
>have Jesus College open its own
>quit both on the spot
>put the letter out through the Good Law Project
>have the letter promise you'll return stronger & wiser
>have the letter come back 100% AI
>have Jesus College drop its probe the moment you quit
>have the Good Law Project boss keep defending you, chalking it all up to neurodivergence
>have the ghostwritten memoir come out in the US anyway, after a 1.4m pre-empt
>have the UK edition still set for Aug 27
>have Cambridge order an outside audit of how you were ever hired
>have Durham & Glasgow open probes of their own
>commit suicide
>have people portray you as a victim?
 
I'd never heard of the guy until the story of his fantasy life broke.
Quite a litany of adventures there, clearly a phony/charlatan/Walter Mitty type with an unbelievable life story, although it seems - fantastic as it reads, some folk really did believe it.

I wasn't aware how targetted he was in the media, but to be fair, it's quite a story.

Is there a racist element to it all?
Perhaps.
But possibly it was in the sense that he wasn't challenged enough because he was black and given more leeway in these times where everyone is afraid to have the 'racist card' played against them, rather than the theory that he's just being picked on BECAUSE he's black.
I haven't read much of the media attacks, so I can't really say.
Maybe if he'd been challenged a bit more he'd never have had the pinnacle to fall from.
 
So two black lassies got kicked into touch so Arday could get the job because of his 'remarkable' story.......


"Dr. Arday applied for an established chair of education at Jesus College, one of Cambridge’s oldest institutions, dating to the 15th century.

The university advertised internationally for the job and convened a panel of nine experts to review the candidates.

The panel selected four finalists, inviting them to Cambridge for two days of interviews.

Dr. Arday was up against three more senior scholars, including two women of color, according to a person familiar with the hiring process."
 
emerald green said:
Whats the point of having different threads :lookaround:
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" What is" or "What's".

This is the correct way to behave on the internet yes?

As I said existence is futility. Pleasure is transitory, misery is forever. Like an inverse puppy on those ads. And misery is the most human of all the forms of existence. Hate and conflict is what the species are truly best at. Look at Chimpanzees, pretty awful and brutally violent when the mood takes them. Not so far from us.
 
jetsam1 said:
" What is" or "What's".

This is the correct way to behave on the internet yes?

As I said existence is futility. Pleasure is transitory, misery is forever. Like an inverse puppy on those ads. And misery is the most human of all the forms of existence. Hate and conflict is what the species are truly best at. Look at Chimpanzees, pretty awful and brutally violent when the mood takes them. Not so far from us.
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as long as youre ;)) getting pleasure I suppose
 
Doc Shrink said:
I'd never heard of the guy until the story of his fantasy life broke.
Quite a litany of adventures there, clearly a phony/charlatan/Walter Mitty type with an unbelievable life story, although it seems - fantastic as it reads, some folk really did believe it.

I wasn't aware how targetted he was in the media, but to be fair, it's quite a story.

Is there a racist element to it all?
Perhaps.
But possibly it was in the sense that he wasn't challenged enough because he was black and given more leeway in these times where everyone is afraid to have the 'racist card' played against them, rather than the theory that he's just being picked on BECAUSE he's black.
I haven't read much of the media attacks, so I can't really say.
Maybe if he'd been challenged a bit more he'd never have had the pinnacle to fall from.
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I'd never heard of him until the story was on the news. My first thought was how did he manage to get away with it for years. He should've been quietly told long ago to cut the crap.
 
jetsam1 said:
I read that is "Iced kittens".
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I am having a "day" seems like! Dealing with Corporate Joy does that sometimes....

I have a porch full of cats as all the locals come here to get their faces fed. I literally trip over cats every day as they headbutt the windows trying to get attention and will not leave me alone.

There are worse problems in the world to have.
 
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