Ohio State University says it has no record of Cambridge’s embattled sociology professor Jason Arday being a ‘Visiting Professor’ there, despite the claim appearing on his Cambridge University profile. Here we go again…
In 2021, Arday became a Sociology of Education professor at Glasgow, making him one of the youngest professors in Britain. He moved to Cambridge in 2023 and was widely held up as a diversity poster boy. Covered extensively elsewhere…
He is currently facing accusations of academic plagiarism and is being supported by Jolyon’s Good Law Project and others.
Cambridge’s Faculty of Education page, which forms part of his bio as a Jesus College fellow, claims he is currently “a Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion”. An office which closed last year…
A spokesman for Ohio State told Guido:
“We have no record of an employee by that name… Visiting professors appear in our employment records. The records would not indicate if an individual visited in another, non-employment, capacity.”
Glasgow University has also disputed Arday’s claim to be a visiting professor there, too. A hard day for Arday…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”