Prof Jason Arday

[cryrst]

This thread, like the Ann Widdecombe thread and many others, says everything about the people posting and nothing about the man in the title...

Yup he was a liar who ruined many lives unlike AW who spoke truth and honesty.
Good spot though 👍

 

[Matov]

This thread, like the Ann Widdecombe thread and many others, says everything about the people posting and nothing about the man in the title...

Maybe that is not a bad point. British politics is currently in a pretty low spot. Now the discourse has always been full of friction but now there seems to be a toxicity to it (and as guilty as most on this) but seems to mean we simply have no common ground.

Those people in Trafalgar Square last night reminded me of people in a cult, and suspect many of them would have been smiling from ear to ear when it came to the news of Miss Widdecombe's murder.

But I have to defend my fellow travellers on the Right because I have not seen, read or heard a single one of them revelling in the death of this man. Where as the same cannot be said of a significant minority on the Left when it came to the murder I have already referenced.

Still, I am again indulging in the tit-for-tat s*** again, so as guilty as most.

 

[Joseph Paxton]

The reason I started thread was because of the specific claims of his-playing for Palace for a handful of years. I wanted to find someone who may have seen an academy game with Arday in goal. As yet, no biters.

Today some photos have been published which are certainly original and show Arday celebrating some trophy wins with his football team which clearly wear the crest and kit of Battersea Park Rangers but not CPFC... as yet anyhow.



So the thread was bound to expand but shame obviously after his sad demise at weekend.

 

[Phil’s Barber]

This thread, like the Ann Widdecombe thread and many others, says everything about the people posting and nothing about the man in the title...

That’s actually a load on f***ing tosh.

Arday was clearly a total c*** and that’s pretty much much what everybody with an ounce of sense is saying.

Ann Widdecombe was a very decent person murdered by a total nutcase, you could barely get two different scenarios.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

The reason I started thread was because of the specific claims of his-playing for Palace for a handful of years. I wanted to find someone who may have seen an academy game with Arday in goal. As yet, no biters.

there were games when i wanted to see Scott Flinders in goal, what with him being on the team-sheet and all. No dice. The invisible man.

 

[Joseph Paxton]

there were games when i wanted to see Scott Flinders in goal, what with him being on the team-sheet and all. No dice. The invisible man.

It was around that timeframe for Arday ?? Mid 2000s, yes was that when Flinders was sporadically our No.2 ? Kiraly No1

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

What a fuckin vile post.

Suicide is the leading cause of death among men under 50 in the UK, claiming over 5000 lives a year. Around 15 men a day take their own life in the UK.

But you think they're immoral and cowardly.

Disgusting.

Bingo. You used one of the lefty tabloid words.

 

[Mr Palaceman]

That’s actually a load on f***ing tosh.

Arday was clearly a total c*** and that’s pretty much much what everybody with an ounce of sense is saying.

Ann Widdecombe was a very decent person murdered by a total nutcase, you could barely get two different scenarios.

This post actually highlights my point. I doesn't really matter what the thread is about. Whether its a political debate or even debates about players or transfers. It quickly descends into abuse. Its always the same now days and its not just this site.

In regards to the murder of Ms Widdecombe, its hard to see how it was not a sickening act, may she rest in peace. Equally I find the death of this man to be tragic. Both can be true.. That's the only qualification I can give, with the little I know from the reports.

What I will say is our posts, no matter what our views, are actually mirrors to ourselves and often say more about the poster than anything the topic offers.

Something tells me not everyone will agree. That's more than fine, its nothing personal..

 

[Stirlingsays]

The truth matters.

If people tell the truth, then in a normal and healthy society they will suffer no negative consequences.
If people tell lies that can be proven as such, then in a normal and healthy society they will suffer negative consequences proportional to the damage done.

Jason Arday lied and lied and received positive outcomes from it.

Those lies were investigated by outside observers despite legal threats and Police action, all the institutions ignored internal comments and doubts and the fear of racism claims probably silenced people.

How elite universities acted, before and during this mess must result in action.

Here are his known and extensive listed lies so far:
(Grok)


1. Diagnosed autistic at age 3

This remains entirely self-reported. No medical records, diagnostic reports, or independent corroboration from clinicians, family medical history, or official sources have been made public. Media coverage treats it as part of his narrative rather than a verified fact.2. Non-verbal until 11Arday has claimed he was non-verbal (or largely unable to speak meaningfully) until just before his 12th birthday, communicating mainly via sign language after extensive speech therapy, and that he first said “hello” in a therapy session around then.

theguardian.com
uk.news.yahoo.com

2. Non-verbal until 11

This has been directly challenged:Multiple former primary-school classmates, a neighbour, and others have said he spoke (some describing him as chatty, a “class clown,” joke-teller, or singer of songs/ad jingles).

uk.news.yahoo.com

Two other school friends provided statements supporting limited/no speech and extra support at school.

uk.news.yahoo.com

Accounts are contradictory; no independent records (speech-therapy notes, school reports, etc.) confirming complete non-verbal status until nearly age 12 have been published. The claim is therefore unproven and actively disputed.3. Partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign by yourself / taught to signArday has described being partially deaf in one ear (mentioning a hearing aid in the first-speech story) and being taught sign language (often from around age 4, linked to the autism/developmental delay diagnosis). In at least one talk he recalled professionals telling his mother she would need to teach him to sign.

youtube.com

3. Partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign by yourself / taught to sign

Again, this is solely from his statements. No audiology records, medical confirmation of hearing loss, or independent verification of sign-language instruction appear in reporting. The “taught to sign by yourself” phrasing does not match his usual accounts (which attribute teaching to professionals/family support); it may reflect a slight misstatement of his claim.Summary: None of the three claims has been independently proven with documentary or third-party medical evidence. The non-verbal claim faces the strongest direct contradiction from contemporaries, while the autism diagnosis and partial deafness remain unverified beyond Arday’s testimony. These form part of a broader set of biographical assertions that came under public scrutiny in 2026.

uk.news.yahoo.com

4. Snooker claims

Arday claimed involvement in the professional snooker tour around age 10 (while still non-verbal) and winning so much money that his mother suspected drug dealing. CueTracker (a comprehensive snooker results database) shows only one recorded amateur event years later, with zero prize money. No evidence supports pro-tour participation or substantial winnings.

spectator.com

5. Football claims

He claimed Crystal Palace academy/under-18 involvement and a semi-professional career. Crystal Palace stated they lack records from the late 1990s/early 2000s period. Independent reports place any playing record at low non-league level (around tier 8, e.g., Lewisham Borough).

uk.news.yahoo.com

6. Seven Up claim

Arday stated he appeared in the BBC’s Seven Up! series (which follows participants from age 7). The original series began in 1964—21 years before his 1985 birth. The BBC confirmed he had “nothing to do with our films.” A later Millennium Generation spin-off does not match either.

telegraph.co.uk

7. Assault, coma, and later reconciliation claims

He described being beaten by youths at a bus stop into a weeks-long (or months-long) coma with locked-in syndrome, hearing medics urge switching off life support, begging a judge for leniency for the attackers, later teaching two of them as students, hugging them, and becoming godfather to one child. Variations appear in book proposals vs. the published memoir (or are omitted entirely). No independent corroboration (police, medical, court, or university records) has been reported.

telegraph.co.uk

8. Ultra-running and fundraising claims

• 30 marathons in 35 days (2010): A contemporary local paper reported completion (with a hairline fracture mentioned); a JustGiving page shows ~£6,285 raised for Shelter and Shooting Star. Later tellings added an epileptic fit and a leg swollen to twice its size. Total lifetime fundraising claims escalated to >£100,000 (local paper), then £5m+/£5.5m (TEDx and speeches) for 70–80+ charities. Charities confirmed far smaller verified totals (e.g., ~£10,800 for one).
  
  telegraph.co.uk
• 600 miles in six days: Claimed as a near-world-record feat (men’s 6-day record ~650 miles); later revised to 12 days with rest. No race times, official results, ultra-running community recognition, or independent verification exist. Linked in some accounts to a stroke.
  
  telegraph.co.uk

No contemporaneous race logs, medical records, or broad ultra-community awareness support the extreme athletic claims.

9. Academic work and PhD claims

His 2015 PhD thesis on reflective practice contains 100+ passages (reports cite ~188 sentences) identical or near-identical to Paula Zwozdiak-Myers’s 2009 thesis, including copy-editing errors; additional overlaps with other theses/papers. Liverpool John Moores investigated and cleared him of misconduct (“honest and reasonable error”; text overlap within standards of the time). He claimed completion in ~2.5 years while working full-time, with a brain tumour excised two weeks before the viva, a subsequent stroke causing total short-term memory loss, and only one formal supervision meeting. He still received the PhD.

telegraph.co.uk
A paper claiming focus groups with 32 Black/minority students used quotes matching an epidemiologist’s work (structure also similar); quotes were lifted into other papers as original interviews. Journals issued corrections (not retractions); some quotes were later deleted. He obtained a full chair at Glasgow.

10. Other professional and biographical claims

• TEDx / fundraising: Claimed >£5m raised by age 36 (unverified beyond small documented totals).
• Anecdote about a boy told to “aim lower”: Retold with changing details (concert pianist → astrophysicist → framed as personal experience in a 2023 Channel 4 film).
• Youngest Black professor at Cambridge: Accurate as reported at appointment (age 37).
• BBC radio series on loneliness, Disability Power 100 ranking, honorary degrees (Solent, Anglia Ruskin, St Mary’s, etc.): These occurred as stated in contemporary coverage.
• 70% of Brits live below the breadline: Unsubstantiated statistical claim.
• Palgrave book Being Young, Black and Male: Listed in bios; Palgrave accepted a proposal but never published it.
  
  telegraph.co.uk
• WaterAid water points in South America/Africa: WaterAid states it does not send volunteers abroad.
  
  telegraph.co.uk
• Visiting professorships: Glasgow and Ohio State (DEI office, later closed) stated no record; Nelson Mandela University said only a temporary adjunct role that ended. Birkbeck reported no record of a claimed master’s.
  
  heraldscotland.com
• Grants, threats (knives, assault, spitting, rape/death threats, bananas, bullets, corrosives, animals), masked man with knife: Claims of threats and incidents (including faculty cornering with no CCTV and no contemporaneous reports) lack independent verification or photographs. Grant involvement has been reported but not independently detailed here as “proven” in the sense of the other claims.

In short, a large portion of the more extraordinary personal, athletic, fundraising, and certain affiliation claims remain unproven or have been contradicted by records, institutions, or databases. Academic overlaps were acknowledged but cleared by his PhD-awarding university as non-misconduct. Some career milestones (Cambridge appointment, honorary degrees, rankings) are factual. The overall pattern of embellishment or fabrication was a major focus of 2026 reporting that contributed to his resignation.

 

[Matov]

Now, now, now Stirling. Let's not soil this discussion with actual facts.

Have to confess that the reaction to this mans passing, and specifically this 'rally' in Trafalgar Square has really puzzled me because it, at least to start with, made no sense given that it seems beyond doubt that Araday, and very helpfully aided, abetted and adulated over, by the usual white saviour types, 'winged' his way into this professorship. And when it all turned to dust, made his own choice on the way out of it.

Let me propose a notion.

He is not the only one. That throughout our society, there are numerous examples of people being promoted beyond not only their skill-set, but the actual accepted qualifications required, by way of allowing the Soc.Lib class to get thier virtue signalling highs. With this current FUBAR situation, the definition of a buzz killer.

So this reaction is more warning than mourning. Trying to scare others off from exposing similar?

 

[cryrst]

Now, now, now Stirling. Let's not soil this discussion with actual facts.

Have to confess that the reaction to this mans passing, and specifically this 'rally' in Trafalgar Square has really puzzled me because it, at least to start with, made no sense given that it seems beyond doubt that Araday, and very helpfully aided, abetted and adulated over, by the usual white saviour types, 'winged' his way into this professorship. And when it all turned to dust, made his own choice on the way out of it.

Let me propose a notion.

He is not the only one. That throughout our society, there are numerous examples of people being promoted beyond not only their skill-set, but the actual accepted qualifications required, by way of allowing the Soc.Lib class to get thier virtue signalling highs. With this current FUBAR situation, the definition of a buzz killer.

So this reaction is more warning than mourning. Trying to scare others off from exposing similar?

The police warnings and jail time being given to protesters and questioners eventually becomes a whatever. If the establishment doesn’t understand that then human nature is not something they have a clue about. Poking the bear will get a reaction and that reaction is happening and coming down the road. Maybe and sadly the DEI and immigration s*** will get one of theirs a visit to the morgue. Then you may see the seed change we need as from the bottom up generally doesn’t end well !

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

He thinks Arday's death was cowardly and immoral - we don't know anything about Arday's death other than the fact he took his own life, so what can the poster possibly be describing as cowardly and immoral other than the decision to end his own life..?

I don't why you bother defending such blatant bollocks.

Do give over with your faux outrage.

You are simply trying to divert from the reality that Arday was a con man who got caught out and killed himself because he couldn't handle his fall from grace.

Had he have been White, no one of your disposition would give a damn.

It was people like you who allowed him to lie his way into a false position so they could all feel good about their own virtue. Then they all disowned him when the truth came out. Now they are running back to shout racist and milk the situation now he is dead.

And you come on here with your fake outrage. You lot never learn.

 

[CPFCSaturn]

Do give over with your faux outrage.

You are simply trying to divert from the reality that Arday was a con man who got caught out and killed himself because he couldn't handle his fall from grace.

Had he have been White, no one of your disposition would give a damn.

It was people like you who allowed him to lie his way into a false position so they could all feel good about their own virtue. Then they all disowned him when the truth came out. Now they are running back to shout racist and milk the situation now he is dead.

And you come on here with your fake outrage. You lot never learn.

Suicide is a topic very close to home for me - I won't expand on that any further, but there is nothing fake about my outrage at the post in question - it's an utterly disgraceful response to someone taking their own life.


I'm as baffled as many others by some of the fallout from his death - a tremendously sad ending, but I don't think the media did anything particularly unusual in pursuing and pushing the story, and clearly there was a hell of a story to follow as a result of Arday's lies and deception.

Obviously you, as ever, are arguing with the imaginary leftist man in your head and have to tell me what 'people like me' think - I know you struggle to form your own opinions, but that doesn't make it true of everyone else.

 

[Badger11]

Suicide is a topic very close to home for me - I won't expand on that any further, but there is nothing fake about my outrage at the post in question - it's an utterly disgraceful response to someone taking their own life.


I'm as baffled as many others by some of the fallout from his death - a tremendously sad ending, but I don't think the media did anything particularly unusual in pursuing and pushing the story, and clearly there was a hell of a story to follow as a result of Arday's lies and deception.

Obviously you, as ever, are arguing with the imaginary leftist man in your head and have to tell me what 'people like me' think - I know you struggle to form your own opinions, but that doesn't make it true of everyone else.

A fair assessment.

 

[cryrst]

Suicide is a topic very close to home for me - I won't expand on that any further, but there is nothing fake about my outrage at the post in question - it's an utterly disgraceful response to someone taking their own life.


I'm as baffled as many others by some of the fallout from his death - a tremendously sad ending, but I don't think the media did anything particularly unusual in pursuing and pushing the story, and clearly there was a hell of a story to follow as a result of Arday's lies and deception.

Obviously you, as ever, are arguing with the imaginary leftist man in your head and have to tell me what 'people like me' think - I know you struggle to form your own opinions, but that doesn't make it true of everyone else.

I don’t think you posted this mantra about the white guy jailed for the riots committing suicide in jail. His son was banged up with him. Chip paper now but that was just as sad. Peter was his name.

 

[eaglesdare]

Suicide is a topic very close to home for me - I won't expand on that any further, but there is nothing fake about my outrage at the post in question - it's an utterly disgraceful response to someone taking their own life.


I'm as baffled as many others by some of the fallout from his death - a tremendously sad ending, but I don't think the media did anything particularly unusual in pursuing and pushing the story, and clearly there was a hell of a story to follow as a result of Arday's lies and deception.

Obviously you, as ever, are arguing with the imaginary leftist man in your head and have to tell me what 'people like me' think - I know you struggle to form your own opinions, but that doesn't make it true of everyone else.

You literally claimed I had said somthing that I did not.

 

[CPFCSaturn]

I don’t think you posted this mantra about the white guy jailed for the riots committing suicide in jail. His son was banged up with him. Chip paper now but that was just as sad. Peter was his name.

Did anyone describe his death as cowardly and immoral? Because if not your point doesn't make a shred of fuckin sense does it..?

 

[CPFCSaturn]

You literally claimed I had said somthing that I did not.

It's clear what you meant, and you've backtracked like a coward ever since.

 

[eaglesdare]

It's clear what you meant, and you've backtracked like a coward ever since.

No I have not. You put words in my mouth that I never said. I have clarified it multiple times.

 

[CPFCSaturn]

No I have not. You put words in my mouth that I never said. I have clarified it multiple times.

So what was it about Arday's suicide specifically that made it immoral and cowardly?

Obviously his conduct while alive can't answer that question - what specifically about his death was immoral and cowardly?