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The progressive world loves a good fairy tale. Autistic and totally mute till the age of 11, Professor Jason Arday only learned to read and write at 18. Since then, he has blazed through the academic ranks, from a lectureship in physical education in 2016, to a Cambridge Professorial Chair in Sociology in 2023 \u2014 the youngest black professor ever appointed there. He has helped the Government with its antiracism strategies; on the national curriculum; guest-edited the Today<\/em> program; and been the subject of a glowing profile on\u00a0Good Morning America<\/em>. His writing has been enthusiastically praised by James O\u2019Brien and David Lammy. His fans now await his memoir, to be published in a month\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

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It seems likely to be an incredible read. In various interviews, Arday has claimed to have completed his PhD with a brain tumor; to have run 30 marathons in 35 days, and 600 miles in six days; to have raised millions for charity; to have played both snooker and football at professional levels. And now there is a new chapter in this gripping life story: outright allegations of plagiarism in his academic writing and muttered suspicions of fraud. There are magical-sounding transformations here, arduous journeys, and noble heroes battling it out with dastardly villains. But who exactly are we supposed to root for, and what is the moral of the story?<\/p>\n

For some, the obvious baddie is Arday\u2019s recent accuser, Nathan Cofnas, who has alleged several instances of plagiarism on his Substack. Cofnas, a philosopher at the University of Ghent, is best known for his controversial research on racially based IQ differences, and for taking a Cambridge college to court, claiming it had discriminated against him on the grounds of his \u201canti-woke\u201d beliefs. It is as if the most stereotypically problematic of academics had escaped from a university HR manager\u2019s cheese dream and taken fleshly shape. Predictably, then, commentators who have based their careers on divining institutional racism have been quick to take advantage of the caricatural optics. Cambridge itself says that Arday has been cleared of \u201callegations of plagiarism regarding his thesis and journal publications\u201d, and is a \u201cvictim of a vile campaign to undermine his credibility\u201d.<\/p>\n

But serious concerns about Arday\u2019s work have been circulating for at least three years, voiced by scholars who have no interest in hereditarianism; and it is hard to see how Cambridge could have dismissed them so lightly. In 2023, Professor Dave Harris, an emeritus sociologist, started documenting concerns about Arday\u2019s doctoral thesis and some other journal articles on his own website. Along with another sociologist, Professor Martyn Hammersley, Harris also tried doggedly to raise the matter with journal editors, university authorities, and Arday himself.<\/p>\n

Harris sent me his correspondence. To his polite inquiries, Arday insisted he would consider future contact from Harris as bullying and harassment. Cambridge\u2019s Head of Policy told Harris that, since the alleged issues preceded Arday\u2019s time at Cambridge, it was not within the university\u2019s remit to investigate \u2014 a bizarrely relaxed attitude to the possibility that a star academic had committed research malpractice. Last year, Times Higher <\/em>staff reporter Jack Grove looked into the case in great depth, drawing in part upon evidence from Harris and Hammersley, but his editors spiked the piece after legal letters from Carter-Ruck.<\/p>\n

It is clear, then, that more reputations are at stake here than Arday\u2019s own. When he was first appointed as a Professorial Chair, Cambridge made huge capital out of the moment, stressing the significance not just of their new hire\u2019s ethnicity but his \u201cneurodiversity\u201d too. The well-known theory of intersectionality has it that a black or brown ethnicity, plus a disability, equals the likelihood of exponential discrimination. Alongside this dogma runs a shadow logic for progressive employers, whispering that two protected characteristics in a prominent employee are even better than one; three, if you count Arday\u2019s origins on a deprived council estate. Or as the University press release put it at the time: \u201cparts of [Arday\u2019s] story\u2026 epitomize the significant barriers that neurodivergent individuals, those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people face when trying to build careers in the sector\u201d. But not at Cambridge, they might as well have smugly added.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career, Arday himself has highlighted his disabilities just as much as his race. He has said he only learned to eat for himself aged seven, and that he spent \u201cthousands of hours in speech therapy\u2026 six days a week\u201d from the age of three. He has claimed that the aforementioned brain tumor was surgically removed only two weeks before his PhD viva. Last year, he co-authored a book with Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis entitled We See Things They\u2019ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity<\/em>, published by the elite Princeton University Press. Its subject is how \u201cneurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion\u201d. The authors wax lyrical to their presumed neurodiverse readers: \u201cNot only do you still deserve love, you deserve for your creativity to flourish and be nurtured. You still deserve ordinariness, even if you struggle to communicate your passions.\u201d<\/p>\n

As this suggests, the book is an extremely weird mix of academic jargon and chatty informality. Each chapter starts with a song lyric. Chapter Seven, for instance, begins with the Blur lyric \u201chold on for tomorrow\u201d, then explains: \u201cFor neurodivergent people, who are often holding on to the coattails of neurotypicals, there is a need for the neuromajority population to be more accommodating and understanding in this process\u2026 and hold on for tomorrow<\/em>.\u201d There is also a lot of breathless metacommentary, as if the authors were fascinated with their own creative process \u2014 a feature often found in student essays, but not so much in work by senior academics. In Chapter Three, for instance, you get: \u201cit will come as no surprise to many of our sociologist peers that this third chapter was one of the last we put together\u201d; and \u201c[a]s we returned to Durkheim\u2019s analysis when writing this book, a sense of sadness and frustration often entered our conversations about neurotypical hegemony\u201d. In Chapter Seven: \u201cAs we began to round up our reflections and the rationale of the book, we spoke a lot about the concept of time and our general sense of getting through the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irrespective of the outcome of the plagiarism allegations, it seems to me there is an even more fundamental problem here. Having waded through some of Arday\u2019s books, articles, and talks, it is my strong impression his published outputs would be judged unambiguously mediocre, bordering on comically terrible, were it not for the heroic DEI-friendly backstory. As Cofnas has pointed out, his journal articles are full of typos and solecisms, and there is even a rogue apostrophe in his PhD title. His 2019 monograph, Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova<\/em>, is also strikingly garbled, as he uses autoethnography about Britpop in order to pursue \u201can uncomfortable discourse for melancholic Britain to digest\u201d: that the cool Britannia of the Nineties was actually cruel, racist Britannia instead.<\/p>\n

Here, Arday relates how he fell in love with bands like Oasis at a young age, \u201cor at least so it seemed until the veil of innocence and naivete was stripped away through the most pernicious and insidious of discriminatory instruments\u2026 racism\u201d. The dramatic pause is his. Other phrases tend to collapse under their own weight: \u201cSignificant periods in most individuals\u2019 lives prove to be a point of discovery which can often lead to a sense of belonging that is hard to quantify\u201d; \u201cThere are periods historically which capture the mood of a generation and become the soundtrack to a particular type of lived experience\u201d. The book was nominated for a prize in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Arday\u2019s academic talks, meanwhile, are rambling and banal, in no way consonant with his elevated rank. In his 2024 British Academy lecture at the University of Bristol, for instance \u2014 about \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d in Paul Simon\u2019s album Graceland<\/em> \u2014 he sounds like an enthusiastic sixth-former regurgitating talking points from a rockumentary. At one point he suggests that part of Simon\u2019s \u201cinsecurity\u201d and \u201carrogance\u201d stems from the fact Simon is physically shorter than Art Garfunkel. At another point, he digresses and starts talking about the lack of indigenous actors in Neighbours<\/em> and Home and Away<\/em>, observing that \u201cyou become a sociologist and start looking at it through a different lens; you start thinking \u2018well Australia had an indigenous population\u2026 how come none of them are present in the utopia of Summer Bay?\u2019\u201d. And his interest in these two TV soap operas is not merely in passing; in a podcast interview last year, the Professor said he sleeps \u201cprobably two hours a night\u2026 then in that two hours in between, I fill it with Home and Away<\/em> and Neighbours<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

There is currently some bafflement on social media about why Cambridge authorities are disclaiming the accusations about Arday with such aggressive, self-satisfied certainty. I have a possible explanation that is only secondarily connected to skin color. Namely: at some point, the university sector decided that intellectual disability was something that should be mitigated, rather than treated as disqualifying one from scholarly life. Conditions such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, autism, ADHD, speech delay (and so on) were now to be treated as unfair obstacles to a person\u2019s dreams of pursuing an academic career, rather than constituting evidence they were unsuited. And since over-diagnosis of mental health conditions is rife in the sector, and everyone is frightened of being called discriminatory, the predictable upshot was that \u2014 at least in some cases \u2014 straightforward midwittery came to be treated like an excusable intellectual disability as well.<\/p>\n

Lecturers are now routinely expected to make adjustments to their ordinary critical approach as soon as someone has a diagnosis: to ignore spelling mistakes; mentally rearrange sentences without critical comment; try not to mind paragraphs that go on for days, or seem utterly arbitrary in their shape. I speak from experience. As a marker, you are supposed to look beneath the jumble of words and find the true scholar lurking shyly within. Most often, this nonsensical strategy is applied at the level of students; but once the principle was conceded, it was only a matter of time before such accommodations were extended to staff too.<\/p>\n

Primed by his amazing personal history, Cambridge bosses seem to have taken this patronizing approach to the quality of Arday\u2019s outputs, just as other august bodies presumably did before them: Glasgow University, where Arday was also a Professor; the British Sociological Association, where he is a trustee; Routledge and Princeton University Press, the publishers of his books. According to the unspoken norms of these institutions, it doesn\u2019t matter how silly Arday sounds in interviews, or how bad his writing is. It is already priced in. To point out the fact wouldn\u2019t just be rude, it would also be positively discriminatory in a vague sort of way; whereas to ignore the issue is virtuous and noble. Many people have noticed marked inadequacies in Arday\u2019s work over the years, I assume, but very few have said anything. And I also assume that the pressure to stay silent has increased, the higher he has climbed. What\u2019s this? You are pointing out Professor Jason Arday of Cambridge University \u2014 a man who has been through so much to get where he is \u2014 can\u2019t write coherent sentences, or stay on-topic in his talks? Are you some kind of Nazi?<\/p>\n

Cambridge\u2019s stubborn defense of its employee in the light of the plagiarism accusations looks to me like just more of the same. Managers there don\u2019t seem to see the deliberate repetition of other people\u2019s phrases as any kind of vice, in his particular case \u2014 it can only be inadvertent and excusable, given his known disabilities, and so perhaps doesn\u2019t count as plagiarism at all. And it seems his race might be being treated as an additional mitigating factor, based on the assumption he routinely undergoes racist treatment which causes him psychological distress.<\/p>\n

For instance, in correspondence between Harris and Head of the Cambridge Faculty of Education, Dr Hilary Cremin, Cremin said that when she had asked Arday about Harris\u2019s plagiarism allegations, the former had \u201cspoke movingly about his ongoing experiences of direct and indirect racism, and the conditions that he was living in whilst the\u2026 article was being prepared\u201d. She also stressed that her faculty remained \u201cimmensely proud of Prof Arday\u2019s achievements and scholarship\u201d.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking here that Cremin was trying to offer mitigating circumstances for a troubled but promising undergraduate \u2014 except that she was talking about someone holding a Professorial Chair. Once a narrative of mental disability is firmly in place, it seems that a presumed experience of racism can just be added to the list, as yet another unfair impediment to intellectual achievement. Minority ethnicity plus disability now equals the suspension of critical judgment.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, there are likely to be many losers in this embarrassing debacle: deserving young scholars who were overlooked as Arday was appointed, now lost to the profession; fee-paying students who came to Cambridge or Glasgow to bask in the intellectual glow of world-class academics, and got some waffle about Australian soap operas instead; accomplished black or brown researchers smeared by association, now facing abuse online from hereditarian idiots who assume that Arday\u2019s case is the norm. And ultimately, Cambridge University will be a massive loser, deservedly so. It is a necessary condition of the place\u2019s continuing glamour and prestige that it enforces rigorous academic standards. To be shown not to care about this, in such a public way, is an act of catastrophic institutional self-harm.<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t help thinking another loser is Arday himself, wandering like a modern-day Forrest Gump through various prestigious institutions, treated like a sage for every strange or incomprehensible thing he says. To be radically unsuited to an Oxbridge professorship is scarcely something to be ashamed of. Indeed, these days, in my book, it is practically a badge of honor. There are plenty of decent jobs Arday might have found earlier on, more suited to his skill set, which would not have set him up for such public humiliation later. Yet \u2014 whatever pieties university managers spouted at the time of his appointments \u2014 ultimately, the real reason for his elevation was that they saw the symbolic benefit of his protected characteristics for themselves. Irrespective of the truth about his research techniques, it is obvious Arday is already being treated by Cambridge and other places as \u2014 quite literally \u2014 a useful idiot. His fairy tale is not yet over; but I think we can already identify some clear villains.<\/p>\n

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