Jason Arday found dead today.

Tuliptree

Plenty of people loved yes loved piling in on him. Will they reflect? Like hell they will

Indeed.

Aldom

Sorry to hear of a death FGT, but who is Jason Arday please?

Come on, where have you been?

Read the GN threads on him, the vitriol, the pleasure in his fall from grace. Note the posters. As if they care

Terrible news. I think he was a fantasist but there was no indication that he was malicious or horrible in any way. Poor man, the unwanted and unwarranted publicity must have been too much for him to bear. How awful for his family and friends. RIP

It’s OK, just seen a Telegraph headline about it (can’t read the report).

Absolutely tragic!

The media, social and mainstream, need to take a good look at themselves and remember there’s a human being behind every ‘story’.

I’m shocked - that’s why I couldn’t quite believe it at first.

Plenty of people loved yes loved piling in on him. Will they reflect? Like hell they will

There are news items about it, but they are in newspapers like the Times and Telegraph (and the Sun) with paid subscriptions so I couldn't read them. Apparently he was found unresponsive at home and was discovered to be dead.

In some major newspapers, waiting to see if its out beyond GB news, Telegraph and Times, I imagine the BBC is triple checking.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/14/jason-arday-found-dead/

I feel terrible for this young man and his loved ones. Whatever he did it was not done to harm anyone and who is perfect in this world. The amount of publicity his case attracted and obviously the amount of venomous responses on social media was totally uncalled for. It was handled very badly.

LizzieDrip

With respect … I can’t find any reports / chat GPT etc saying that Jason Arday has died.

FGT (or anyone) could you point me in the direction of the truth?

Oh god - good point . If this isn’t true I feel sick. It never crossed my mind to check - idiot

No he did not deserve it, thank you Doodledog.
The vitriol focussed on him more than others who have quietly been eased out in the past but were not DEI appointments.

Plenty of people across social media positively relished laying into him. I feel truly shocked by this news

With respect … I can’t find any reports / chat GPT etc saying that Jason Arday has died.

FGT (or anyone) could you point me in the direction of the truth?

Yes, he was a professor.

I can't begin to imagine how stressful and just awful it must be to live with so much humiliation and vitriol - so many people thinking they know how universities work, and what his motives must have been, banging on about him when they haven't even met him (not to mention the ridiculous 'race card' comments).

It would be bad enough being 'the talk of the steamie' as people used to say about women being gossiped about, but when people up and down the land are being so horrible it must be unbearable. That poor man. He may have brought some of it on himself, but did he really deserve that?

Icarus. 😭

Oh gosh, yes of course Georgesgran. Thank you for jogging my memory.
This is indeed very sad news. I'm so sorry.
My condolences to his family and friends.

I think that he must have been a very fragile person. The stress must have been unbearable.

RIP

There was a whole thread on him and the issues, Aldon
You'll find out a lot there. Controversy.
www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/a1360570-Professor-Jason-Arday-plagiarism-etc

That is sad. Despite his ‘behaviour’ he was a human being, a son, lover, sibling - whatever.

A professor Aldom - it’s been in the papers all last week. There’s a thread about him in GN in N&P

What?

Is this true?

Oh no....
Was it needful, the level of attacks on him...perhaps Cambridge had its reasons for wanting it to be lower key than many demanded....he resigned, and still the comments, it was obvious there were trauma and a troubled mind..

Oh, it's dreadful. 😢

Sorry to hear of a death FGT, but who is Jason Arday please?

How incredibly sad, that poor man.