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Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Links - 1st September 2026 (2 - Jason Arday)

Meme - Daniel Concannon: "The Jason Arday story:
~ Be Black pathological liar
~ Become Cambridge professor based on your lies & anti-White hiring standards
~ Get paid with White people's tax money to do anti-White agitprop
~ Commit numerous criminal frauds
~ Get exposed
~ Kill yourself
~ Be called a lynching victim of White people
There is absolutely no set of circumstances that can't be turned into 'White People Bad'."
Prof. Hanna Kienzler @Hannakienzler: "Jason Arday was killed by a lynch mob whose harassment drove him to death. He was made killable by an institution that exploited him to fix its structural racism, then failed its duty of care. Justice must be served, and those responsible held accountable."

Meme - Supertanskiii @supertanskiii: "I hope all those racist bastards are happy with themselves for driving a young black man to his death. You essentially achieved an indirect lynching. God, I fucking hate what this country is becoming."
Supertanskiii @supertanskiii: "Ann Widdecombe, starting her descent into hell."
Left wingers are continuing to pretend he was innocent of plagiarism, pretending his lies didn't exist. Of course he was a victim though he tried to harass people with lawyers, the police and corporate disciplinary processes.
Left wingers want to muzzle the press when it doesn't push the left wing agenda because it's only fascist to criticise the press when it does.

Meme - *Drake Hotline Bling*
"Jason Arday. George Floyd" *crying green haired Commie pig with septum ring*
"Charlie Kirk. Ann Widdecombe" *laughing green haired Commie pig with septum ring*

Meme - Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu: "This is a public execution. You hounded Jason Arday to death. You murdered him. You killed him. I warned you. I knew this is exactly what you all wanted with your 'racism' masked as accountability. Your white supremacist blood thirsty lust to destroy DE) masked as public execution. Shame on you."
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu: ""How you died does not redeem how you lived" That's a freaking bar! Pastor Howard John-Wesley sums up the selective outrage over Charlie Kirk powerfully We won't be gaslit by the #WeAreCharlieKirk cult."
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu: "Charlie Kirk was no political martyr and targeted people for his self- serving political interest. Hunting down those who don't care he is dead is a violation of their freedom of speech. Idolising his legacy of hate and political violence while weaponising his assassination to manufacture a fake crisis of war is staggering."

Meme - Jeremy Kauffman: "In 2020, Mike Adams committed suicide after being canceled and losing his job as a professor. Adams was never dishonest. All he did was say things like "rioters are thugs" and "women's studies aren't essential". Even in death, the media ran awful headlines like this."
"Professor who announced retirement after racist and sexist tweets died by suicide. UNCW's Mike Adams hadn't been heard from for days, before deputies found him dead inside his bedroom. Controversial University of North Carolina Wilmington professor found dead"
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana: "If Jason Arday were a white middle-class academic, he would not have been hounded by the British press in the way he was. My thoughts are with his loved ones. May he rest in peace."

Lucas Lynch | Facebook - "It's possible my view that "peak woke" had passed was premature.  This is sheer religious insanity on display, and yes, only religion could make people act so insane in massive numbers in a way that nobody would do on their own.  Arday was an obvious fraud, lifted up by a giant religious framework to a position of esteem he did not deserve. Reputable journalists tried to investigate him, and were met with threats of lawsuits and police action. The extent of his fraud could not be more clearly exposed now - and yet in the face of such obvious evidence, the faithful are now elevating him to sainthood, and looking for heretics to execute. You can (and should!) criticize the person who ultimately brought this to light - but you cannot simply dismiss the overwhelming evidence that has now been confirmed by reputable journalists and publications in the field.   This strange new religion continues to be exactly that. Arguments that are impervious to evidence. Axioms that cannot be questioned. Heretics that must be punished. The faithful find this debacle especially threatening because it exposes the racket for exactly what it has been known to be for some time. Who is going to trust an academic establishment that so enthusiastically embraces fraud and anti-truth as its founding principles? Who are they to accuse Donald Trump of lying, when there is no such thing as truth as their bottom foundation? The same people who told you it was safe to go out in massive protests during the plague, and the same people lying about the Jewish state are now demanding that this fraudster is actually one of the anointed martyrs for "the cause" - not a liar and deceiver who, in a final act of selfishness, decided to abandon his family in the face of his deceit.   This is George Floyd 2.0 - the creation of another DEI saint in a religious tale similarly detached from reality. (You can admit this and still know that Floyd did not deserve to be murdered as he was, and that it is tragic that this person took his own life and left his family to the wolves)."

Ghent University shouldn’t have suspended Nathan Cofnas | The Spectator - "It is ironic that the “be kind” brigade beating their breasts and wailing about the “lynching” and “assassination” of Jason Arday think the appropriate response is to whip up hatred against Nathan Cofnas, the scholar who exposed Arday’s academic misconduct. At the vigil for Arday at Trafalgar Square in London, several speakers singled out Cofnas for blame, including Diane Abbott MP, who described him as a “racist.” Nathan contacted me shortly afterwards worried that he risked being murdered if he set foot in London... It now looks as though the organisers of the Two Minutes Hate against Nathan in Trafalgar Square have got their wish – he’s been suspended by Ghent university, where he held a position as a postdoctoral researcher, pending an investigation. His sin, apparently, was not to expose Arday’s plagiarism, but to talk about it in an unseemly way afterwards – a sleight of hand we encounter again and again at the FSU: it’s not what you said, but the manner in which you said it.  In its communications about Nathan’s suspension, the university has emphasised how many people have written to it, presumably demanding Nathan’s head, as if that makes the decision more acceptable. The mob has spoken, is the subtext. If we deny them their pound of flesh, our reputation will suffer.   I daresay Nathan will lose his position at Ghent and that will send a message to other young academics, just starting out in their careers, who stumble across examples of misconduct in their fields. If the wrongdoer is the beneficiary of DEI, who will dare speak up? Best to keep quiet. Look what happened to Nathan Cofnas.  It’s as though the famous fairytale about the little boy who points out the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes has been rewritten by a ‘sensitivity’ reader. In the new version, the emperor commits suicide, while the boy is subjected to a show trial."
Harassing academics, retaliating against whistleblowers and suppressing academic freedom are only bad when they threaten the left wing agenda. Of course, left wingers hate the Free Speech Union too, because they hate free speech

BREAKING: Ghent University’s trans rector suspends ‘race realist’ Nathan Cofnas over Jason Arday’s death - "It goes on to say that "The manner in which you publicly presented your role in the allegations concerning the late professor Jason Arday has reinforced concerns among the university’s community that your public interventions seem to develop into targeted campaigns of professional elimination." And thus, concludes the letter, Cofnas needs to be eliminated... Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter announced the investigation. De Sutter, a trans-identified male and Green Party member, was hailed when he was appointed in 2020 as deputy prime minister in Belgium, the first trans minister in Europe. De Sutter is a doctor and was a professor of gynecology and had previously had to turn down an honorary doctorate after it turned out De Sutter "used fabricated AI quotes in a speech" in the fall of 2025.   In response, De Sutter said, "While this decision was undoubtedly difficult, it is, given the circumstances, the right step." The false quotes included one from Albert Einstein, "dogma is the enemy of progress." De Sutter said "I deeply regret that I fell into this trap. I cannot undo this. This experience provides an important lesson and will further stimulate the debate around AI. Internally, this discussion has now been placed at the top of our agenda."   Arday, too, was accused of using AI to create his written work. There was even speculation that his resignation letter was generated by AI... Cofnas spoke to Winston Marshall about "race realism," revealing that much of the reason he was fired from Cambridge was owed to his citing Harvard University's own statistics that showed "if admissions were based only grades and test scores... the undergraduate population would be 0.67%, so slightly less than 0.7% black.""
I saw left wingers claiming that he was being disciplined because of his prior racist writing. So much for that. Also as usual they pretend not to understand things. Retaliating against whistleblowers under an excuse is still retaliation

Crémieux on X - "Cofnas isn't making random allegations, he's repeating a known thing the person persecuting him right now had to apologize for publicly. It's remarkable how the people attacking Cofnas seem to be so uniformly incurious, malicious, and prone to lying. They choose to be this way!"

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "Imagine if, in 2005, some bayou swamp white nationalist wrote a science fiction novel where, in 2026
- A black man who brags about being mentally retarded is made a full professor at Cambridge to universal acclaim
- The only one brave enough to expose him is a race scientist
- Who is then persecuted by his superior, a male gynaecologist turned transvestite who is, like the black guy, ALSO a fraudster
I would have thrown it at the wall
I would have called it the most ridiculous thing I'd ever read
I guess in the book the hero would have been named Hans Herrenrasse and be 7' tall and blonde and blue eyed, instead of being a soft-spoken Ashkenazi Jew"

Uncaptured by Janet Murray | Facebook - "Author Candice Carty-Williams has withdrawn from Cheltenham Literature Festival because it is sponsored by The Times. She says that, following the death of Professor Jason Arday, she had “no choice” but to withdraw - and criticises the newspaper for making no comment. But she did have a choice. She has chosen to boycott a literary festival because its sponsor reported serious, evidenced questions about a prominent Cambridge academic’s work. The Times reported that its analysis had found “impossible data” and inconsistencies in Arday’s academic work. Investigating such claims is what newspapers are supposed to do. There is no established evidence that its reporting caused Arday’s death. Indeed, the Samaritans specifically warns against attributing suicide to a single event or factor. Carty-Williams is entitled to withdraw. But there is also something deeply ironic about an author using her position at a literary festival to exert pressure on a newspaper over its reporting. Writers rightly defend their freedom to publish difficult or unpopular ideas. That principle must also extend to journalists investigating evidence that others would prefer left alone."

Murray Walters on X - "One reason Arday is so vigorously defended is that his boosters and apologists are just like him. They have never had to acquire any specialist knowledge about anything, and what little they have is either undergraduate dilettantism in disciplines you can now master in the time it takes to watch two YouTube videos, or is in word-salad-fantasy garbage disciplines. Freelancers with arts degrees are certainly the worst. If I had a grievance personality, no useful education, yet wrote for a living, he'd be my guy too."

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness | Facebook
Left wing logic - "neurodivergent" people can't help but plagiarize. Good luck if you point out this means "neurodivergent" people don't belong in academia.
Left wingers (e.g. in the comments) keep pushing that tired line about how his alleged plagiarism was the literature review so it's a false positive and/or that plagiarism detection tools don't know if you cited the quoted bits properly so there's no proof he plagiarized. Either they don't know that his plagiarism has been extensively publicly documented or they're lying. Either way their claims are false and their opinion is worthless.

Edward Graham on X - "The @nathancofnas  affair really does show how bizarre DEI culture in academia has become.  We have a system where ordinary white, heterosexual men are expected to accept that their achievements and opportunities somehow count for less.  I don’t begrudge anyone their success. I don’t care whether you’re Polish, Jewish, black, gay, straight, male or female. If you’ve got the ability, do the work and succeed.  What I object to is being told that merit and competition are somehow suspect because of who you are.  And then you get the rather surreal spectacle of one trans activist presenting an honorary degree to another trans activist for their work on DEI and LGBTQ issues.  At some point, you have to ask whether academia is rewarding scholarship or simply rewarding activism."

Matthew Abraham on X - "This article argues that plagiarism accusations were weaponized against Arday and used to target him. Yet, in some sense, the plagiarism was the least of Arday’s issues, He literally had nothing to contribute from the standpoint of scholarship since he just repeated DEI talking points that he used to advance and embellish his own biography.   It’s amazing that auto ethnography became so central to DEI scholarship: “Believe me because I said it happened.”  @StanleyRidgley  @Rach_IC  @darrengrimes  @kevinnbass"

Carole Cadwalladr on X - "NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. 🔗 Below"
Geoff Shullenberger on X - "Carole Cadwalladr is a premier purveyor of what Joseph Heath and @danwilliamsphil have called “highbrow misinformation.” She concocts conspiracy theories whose purpose is to insulate the progressive establishment from criticism, even as she presents herself as anti-establishment.
Her Cambridge Analytica and Arday stories amount to the same thing: attributing all the events she and her followers deplore to shadowy right-wingers conspiring to dupe the public."

Benjamin Ryan on X - "Carole Cadwalladr Must Run a Correction On Her Faulty Arday Report After She Failed to Acknowledge My Reporting
@CaroleCadwalladr has falsely claimed that “no one” in the media tracked down the multiple contemporaneous reports of Jason Arday (supposedly) running 30 marathons in 35 days in 2010. I found almost all of these references—presented a few days ago by the Middle East Eye as if no one had yet reported them—and reported them on my Substack on Aug. 1 and in the Washington @FreeBeacon  on Aug. 4.  Therefore, I respectfully request that Cadwalladr corrects her false claim in her Substack and acknowledges my reporting from three weeks ago. If she is an honest journalist she will run an editor’s note acknowledging her error  I further suggest that she acknowledges that these contemporaneous news reports of Arday supposedly running 30 marathons in 35 days do not prove he actually accomplished that feat. They prove that he told people he did so. Note that he availed himself of the services of a pair of PR men to promote his efforts. (He claimed in his memoir that they offered their services pro bono. Oddly, he gives them pseudonyms.) That is why he got multiple local press outlets to cover the supposed feat. But Arday did not run as a part of any official races and did not run with a GPS tracker. So these reports do not prove he completed these runs.  I must say, I find it galling when people condescend to the media about what a bad job the media did about some subject, but in the process these people fail to get the story right themselves.  This screenshot is from her errant Substack:"

Paul Holden on X - "Just shameful that this was all available online and no media outlet bothered to look. Just scoffed and sneered at a gifted academic and athlete. The worst of us killed the best of us."
James C Graves on X - "All that photo proves is that a group of his supporters and friends--30 to 50 people--joined him for a photo where he claimed he finished his 30th marathon.  Show me his entrance card, times and finish from a single organized marathon.  If you are going to claim you are a world class endurance distance runner better come with some unimpeachable documentation when you have a record of making improbable Walter Mittyish claims (near professional at billiards and soccer).  Guy was just a fraud who couldn't live being exposed."

Peter J. Williams on X - "Direct link to Jason Arday’s contemporaneous 2010 blog detailing his 30 marathons in 35 days. It gives times and various witnesses. HT @MonkEmma"
Cockford Ollie on X - "On 9 Feb this year, the blog is captured as private. https://t.co/floMvkUCr8 Interesting that 6 days prior, on 3 February 2026, the police had asked Jack Grove to back off"

Benjamin Ryan on X - "This fundraising page of Arday's didn't prove he ran 30 marathons in 35 days. It proved he only raised £6,285, even as he told credulous local reporters writing about his supposed marathon running that he'd raised about £100,000 over the past eight years. How? He never explained."

Bernard T. Joy on X - "Story time: I am still listening to academics vociferously defend Jason Arday concerning his dismissal and the plagiarism allegations. However, I have to remember that all these people know how cruel and cutthroat their profession is. I know a professor who was dismissed for reading a chapter of a novel by a famous literary modernist in a class on famous literary modernists. Because the original text contained a word students did not like on grounds that it is a racist word, the professor went through disciplinary procedures and was let go. You would not believe that, would you? And yet it happened and not only did no one in this warm and loving academic community care about this terrible injustice against this person, many actively celebrated it in colloquia I attended. So, with my knowledge of that kind of background, it is very hard to care about the complaints of academics who wish to create sympathy for someone who committed plagiarism. Either you care about the wellbeing of your colleagues or you do not care."
They only care about those who push the left wing agenda

Sidsy on X - "I have been told I obviously have an "agenda".
So, to be clear:
My "agenda" is to look objectively at the claims and assess the available evidence. There is definitely evidence that Dr Arday undertook a marathon challenge; that is indisputable.  There is also evidence that he made claims around that challenge (both at the time and particularly later) which appear to be either untrue or embellishments. Specifically:
1. Claiming that he ran nine marathons whilst his right leg had "ballooned to twice its size"
2. Claiming that two to three thousand people were waiting for him at the finish. Both these claims are contradicted by photographic and video evidence from that day, as I have shown.
3. His later claim (in 2021) that he had run all the marathons in under five hours, clearly not supported by his blog which shows all of the later marathon times as between five and nearly six and a half hours.
Emma was aware of all of the above but chose not to include these claims in her thread. As I said in my original post, evidence that Dr Arday said something is not evidence that it happened.  And given his many other verifiably false claims (particularly re. his professional CV), yes - I will question everything. That is not an unreasonable position to take when you believe in proper fact-checking."
Bley Mingus on X - I don't are about the marathons, his claim that he was mute until 11 is far more serious."
Sidsy on X - There are many other claims that are more serious, including those on his professional CV. I've only listed those in relation to this challenge here as Emma chose to do a 26-post thread about it to supposedly show how the press "lied" and didn't do their job properly. Emma, of course, has written no threads about his verifiably false claims re. qualifications and titles."
chevronroady on X - "Emma cares about the 30 marathons because the rest is so far fetched she doesn't have a leg to stand on. It's preposterous but that is the mentality of the cult."

Melissa Chen on X - "You guys realize that the leftist reaction to the Jason Arday case is going to incentivize more and more people to just "self-ID" as autistic or neurodivergent right?   Why? Because it instantly unlocks two-tier judgment. There will be massive upside to identify as "neurodivergent" and no downside. It's a choose-your-own-adventure but this time you're just choosing your own alibi.   No one challenges the claim, and you might even score an endorsement from figures like autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen.   The same excesses that distorted the trans movement will now come for "neurodivergence." Increasingly, mental health status is treated as a moral free pass - permission to act like an asshole or commit crimes (see the Lindsay Clancy case)."

Darren Grimes on X - "Only in Britain could you fake your credentials, lecture students on white privilege to mask your own inadequacies, and still get a candlelit vigil from the cultural class."

Thread by @chrisJmaggio on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Of the over 500 signatories on this list, it seems, based on my brief investigation, that a very small number said or signed anything publicly in defense of Rumeysa Ozturk. I’m sure this was just an oversight.  For transparency, I asked ChatGPT to search for public statements and public signatures related to Ozturk for those who signed the Cofnas letter. It only found 1 (Michael Glennon). Some of this could be because many of the signatories of the Cofnas letter are based outside of the US, but 150 are US-based, and by that logic only 7 on the letter are based in Belgium. It could be of course that ChatGPT is missing people, but 1 found out of over 500 seems notable"
Left wing logic: if you speak out against academia retaliating against a whistleblower who exposed plagiarism and don't speak out against a student's visa being revoked for writing an op-ed, you're a hypocrite (even though those are in different countries, involve different types of institutions, are different types of activities and retaliating against whistleblowers is against EU law while the US government has broad authority to revoke student visas). Ironically, when you ask left wingers why they're obsessed over their trivial causes and ignore much bigger ones, they say everyone has the right to pursue their own causes

Bo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇵🇱 on X - "This is a thorough piece on affirmative action at Harvard in terms of admissions for different racial groups. It gives context to the oft-quoted 0.7% black students at Harvard if DEI didnt exist, which is usually misattributed to Nathan Cofnas."
If Cofnas quotes something Harvard's own data says, that's proof that he's a racist white supremacist

أبو عمّار on X - "This interview of @nathancofnas  by my old colleague @NickFerrariLBC  (who - lest we forget - infamously said during Covid “ban the unvaccinated from leaving their homes”) highlights everything wrong with today’s uniparty media.   Ferrari was having an entirely different (woke: “how can you say that??”) conversation to the one Cofnas was having.  A fair broadcaster would accept that Cofnas here was saying:
a) Group differences in test scores are confirmed by research. And Harvard (wrongly in Cofnas ’ view, and my own) practices positive discrimination to reverse this.
b) to make his point about the unfair impact of positive discrimination on American-Asians, who score higher than others, Cofnas had quoted Harvard’s own data on his blog: if Harvard ditched positive discrimination, only 0.7% of black students would gain entry (and American-Asians would gain more places).
c) Cofnas explained that observable group differences do not apply to all ‘outlier’ cases, and hence he accepts that individual blacks can, and do, excel.
Like Cofnas, I also reject Harvard’s positive discrimination and I value meritocracy. Probably unlike Cofnas, I doubt group differences in IQ can be reliably isolated as to cause. And regardless, I am suspicious of IQ scores being used as a reliable measure of intelligence anyway.   BUT, despite my likely disagreeing with Cofnas here, it is obvious Ferrari wasn’t interested in a conversation here. He was simply grandstanding as a virtue-signal. Just as he did during Covid."

CowLivesMatter on X - "Cutting right to the chase: I think we are asking the wrong questions about the Arday case, and we're allowing Cambridge and the most powerful people in the UK to run out the clock.  Don't be distracted by the plagiarism question. It hardly matters. All that matters is that no one, especially a man with severe learning differences, can teach himself a wholly new discipline and write an original work of scholarship in it in 3 years, while also working numerous full time jobs, caring for elderly parents and a young family.  This is the timeline between when Arday finishes his Masters in Physical Education (2012) and defends his PhD in Sociology (2015)."
Wanjiru Njoya on X - "Yes. And he was "laundered" from Liverpool John Moores, an ex-poly where standards are under less public scrutiny, up through Glasgow and Durham which are in the Russel Group. Cambridge would not have hired him straight from Liverpool John Moores."

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