Professor Jason Arday: A Life In Tatters

Professor Jason Arday (JA) It is difficult to write this without seeming to be piling more abuse on a man who is now dead and unable to defend himself. In fact, my feeling is that the real story is about Cambridge University and how they came to appoint him and how they circled the wagons rather than look at the matter head on when things seemed not right. And similarly for previous institutions that appointed him. The allegation is of course that these institutions fell over backwards in their determination not to see JA's colour for fear that they would be prejudiced or seen as prejudiced. C

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