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🔴 Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times' 'Impossible Data'
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him.
Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him.
Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:
Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him
bylinetimes.com
September 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
🔴 Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times' 'Impossible Data'
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him.
Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections & retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media storm that engulfed him.
Special Investigation by @nafeez.bsky.social:
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Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University
youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
September 3, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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More ethics and philosophy lessons from the Associate Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. No, it's not about transubstantiation or the Last Supper, but how much a foreign money man needs to pay to lunch with Nigel Farage
September 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
More ethics and philosophy lessons from the Associate Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. No, it's not about transubstantiation or the Last Supper, but how much a foreign money man needs to pay to lunch with Nigel Farage
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This whole article, in my view, aims to blame Orr, and suggest Farage is innocent (everything above board).
Even the heading aims to blame the senior aide.
Chis Mason spinning hard for Farage here...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Even the heading aims to blame the senior aide.
Chis Mason spinning hard for Farage here...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law
A film broadcast by Channel 4 shows senior Reform UK figures discussing donations with an undercover reporter.
www.bbc.com
September 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Someone has died after a relentless press campaign. The very least the public is entitled to is an investigation into the press’ role in these events and an independent body to review complaints against the press in the future.
www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...
www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...
Defensive, evasive & hypocritical: The press reaction to the death of Jason Arday
The reaction of national newspapers to the death of Professor Jason Arday has exposed a brittle defensiveness at the heart of the press, and a determination to remain outside any meaningful accountabi...
www.hackedoff.org
August 28, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Someone has died after a relentless press campaign. The very least the public is entitled to is an investigation into the press’ role in these events and an independent body to review complaints against the press in the future.
www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...
www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...
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Harris admitting to sending unsollicited email to Jason Arday (who had asked him to stop) AND lying about the bullying incident in 1996. He claims he was cleared. He was in fact charged with misconduct.
Arday was aware of Harris' pattern of behaviour.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lecture...
Arday was aware of Harris' pattern of behaviour.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lecture...
August 28, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Harris admitting to sending unsollicited email to Jason Arday (who had asked him to stop) AND lying about the bullying incident in 1996. He claims he was cleared. He was in fact charged with misconduct.
Arday was aware of Harris' pattern of behaviour.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lecture...
Arday was aware of Harris' pattern of behaviour.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lecture...
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Crazy - it started with Cofnas saying "I can't disprove any of this but (for reasons unspecified) it can't be true" and the whole media ran with the assumptions of someone who not only has an axe to grind with Cambridge but also thinks black people can't be senior academics. Horrendous.
August 28, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Crazy - it started with Cofnas saying "I can't disprove any of this but (for reasons unspecified) it can't be true" and the whole media ran with the assumptions of someone who not only has an axe to grind with Cambridge but also thinks black people can't be senior academics. Horrendous.
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Imagine a man driven to kill himself because the British media destroyed his reputation based on lies. And then imagine that, even after his death, that same media carry on tormenting his family with the same soul destroying lies. Incredible, isn’t it. But here we are
August 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Imagine a man driven to kill himself because the British media destroyed his reputation based on lies. And then imagine that, even after his death, that same media carry on tormenting his family with the same soul destroying lies. Incredible, isn’t it. But here we are
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This is important too from @thenerve.news. If you read that viral news piece from one anonymous student reproduced in Unherd, Times & Telegraph & pumped out as FB/Insta ads, you need to read this.
What Professor Jason Arday's students actually thought:
www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
What Professor Jason Arday's students actually thought:
www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
Students remember Jason Arday: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’
A viral article by an anonymous student suggested the academic was a “terrible” teacher. Undergraduates at Durham, where he taught between 2019 and 2022, tell fellow alumna Michaela Makusha that their...
www.thenerve.news
August 23, 2026 at 9:48 AM
This is important too from @thenerve.news. If you read that viral news piece from one anonymous student reproduced in Unherd, Times & Telegraph & pumped out as FB/Insta ads, you need to read this.
What Professor Jason Arday's students actually thought:
www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
What Professor Jason Arday's students actually thought:
www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
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Yet TODAY, the Times can publish a piece today, citing the fraudulent marathons that Arday ran "on a broken leg", a claim he never made. It was a hairline fracture *that was reported at the time*.
And the headline of the piece? You cannot make this stuff up.
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And the headline of the piece? You cannot make this stuff up.
5/
August 23, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Yet TODAY, the Times can publish a piece today, citing the fraudulent marathons that Arday ran "on a broken leg", a claim he never made. It was a hairline fracture *that was reported at the time*.
And the headline of the piece? You cannot make this stuff up.
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And the headline of the piece? You cannot make this stuff up.
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Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again.
And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today.
It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows.
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And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today.
It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows.
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August 23, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again.
And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today.
It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows.
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And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today.
It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows.
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This is the link to his blog: web.archive.org/web/20100820...
30 in 35 – Jason Arday Marathon Man
web.archive.org
August 23, 2026 at 12:09 AM
This is the link to his blog: web.archive.org/web/20100820...
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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days!
Wow!
What a thing to claim!
And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it.
Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄
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Wow!
What a thing to claim!
And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it.
Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄
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1/26
August 22, 2026 at 11:22 AM
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days!
Wow!
What a thing to claim!
And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it.
Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄
🧵
1/26
Wow!
What a thing to claim!
And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it.
Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄
🧵
1/26
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The more I look at the Arday story, the worse it gets. Even I fell for the disinformation flood and thought ‘flawed and vulnerable’ (like all of us). But a deeper dive reveals he was extraordinary talented (still vulnerable). And it’s that talent which his haters couldn’t abide
August 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM
The more I look at the Arday story, the worse it gets. Even I fell for the disinformation flood and thought ‘flawed and vulnerable’ (like all of us). But a deeper dive reveals he was extraordinary talented (still vulnerable). And it’s that talent which his haters couldn’t abide
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August 20, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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This worried me from the beginning: was there even anything much, academically, that would stick in the accusations?
I fear that once we have a full picture, many of the journalists who led this witch hunt against Arday will have lost interest and moved on
Jason Arday is owed a full investigation
I fear that once we have a full picture, many of the journalists who led this witch hunt against Arday will have lost interest and moved on
Jason Arday is owed a full investigation
The allegations of plagiarism that Cofnas surfaced? Liverpool John Moores had already investigated & cleared him & is *still* not being included in most articles. Jason Stanley explains why again there was a basic failure of journalistic understanding & why people took Cofnas’s framing over LJM’s
August 20, 2026 at 8:21 PM
This worried me from the beginning: was there even anything much, academically, that would stick in the accusations?
I fear that once we have a full picture, many of the journalists who led this witch hunt against Arday will have lost interest and moved on
Jason Arday is owed a full investigation
I fear that once we have a full picture, many of the journalists who led this witch hunt against Arday will have lost interest and moved on
Jason Arday is owed a full investigation
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I’ve mapped the far-right semantic operation vs. Arday using the 5W1H method and 4 phases: conception, dissemination, amplification & transformation IRL.
It makes the production chain visible - and shows why starting the story with Cofnas misses how this was a racist attack from day 1, in 2023.
It makes the production chain visible - and shows why starting the story with Cofnas misses how this was a racist attack from day 1, in 2023.
Opérations sémantiques - Arday - Public
docs.google.com
August 20, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I’ve mapped the far-right semantic operation vs. Arday using the 5W1H method and 4 phases: conception, dissemination, amplification & transformation IRL.
It makes the production chain visible - and shows why starting the story with Cofnas misses how this was a racist attack from day 1, in 2023.
It makes the production chain visible - and shows why starting the story with Cofnas misses how this was a racist attack from day 1, in 2023.
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I have a strong sense that, the more people dig, the more innocent Jason Arday will become. Which just makes his death, and the circumstances leading up to it, more awful
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work.
Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
August 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
I have a strong sense that, the more people dig, the more innocent Jason Arday will become. Which just makes his death, and the circumstances leading up to it, more awful
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My article - "Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty" for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
bylinetimes.com
August 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
My article - "Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty" for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
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Keeping our state independent of a company with overtly fascist owners overtly supportive of its origin government’s overtly fascist program and a foreign policy making invasion and extortion threats to our allies is not illiberal. It’s conserving of the liberal democratic project.
BRITAIN WOULD BE BONKERS TO DITCH PALANTIR
New @economist.com leader from me on Palantir. I most wanted to highlight its critics' troubling illiberalism—many seem far too blasé letting politics determine which businesses governments buy from.
You can read it here: www.economist.com/leaders/202...
New @economist.com leader from me on Palantir. I most wanted to highlight its critics' troubling illiberalism—many seem far too blasé letting politics determine which businesses governments buy from.
You can read it here: www.economist.com/leaders/202...
August 20, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Keeping our state independent of a company with overtly fascist owners overtly supportive of its origin government’s overtly fascist program and a foreign policy making invasion and extortion threats to our allies is not illiberal. It’s conserving of the liberal democratic project.
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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
www.middleeasteye.net
August 20, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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I don't have easy access to these tools any more but academic work is heavily metricated. For many it's a measure of worth which is why so many run after citations and publish the slightest thought.
And the majority of papers have low or zero citations. Arday has a significant level of citations.
And the majority of papers have low or zero citations. Arday has a significant level of citations.
Will there be any accountability? The prob is was both right & left leaning news orgs & they’re circling the wagons. The lack of basic humanity & decency *after* the fact is perhaps what’s most depressing of all.
Anyway, Jason’s piece is here:
jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...
Anyway, Jason’s piece is here:
jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...
August 20, 2026 at 9:09 AM
I don't have easy access to these tools any more but academic work is heavily metricated. For many it's a measure of worth which is why so many run after citations and publish the slightest thought.
And the majority of papers have low or zero citations. Arday has a significant level of citations.
And the majority of papers have low or zero citations. Arday has a significant level of citations.
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Jason Arday's death will/has quickly become about 'the media shouldn't be censored' & 'journalists shouldn't be condemned'. The discussion that should be had is why journalism can't calmy reflect & scrutinise itself. It's about the culture. The water we swim in. The knee-jerk response confirms this.
August 19, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Jason Arday's death will/has quickly become about 'the media shouldn't be censored' & 'journalists shouldn't be condemned'. The discussion that should be had is why journalism can't calmy reflect & scrutinise itself. It's about the culture. The water we swim in. The knee-jerk response confirms this.
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A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work.
Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
August 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work.
Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’