The Cambridge sociology professor at the centre of an almighty plagiarism row once stood as a council candidate for the Labour Party. That final piece of the puzzle…
Yesterday Guido revealed that Arday’s position as a “visiting professor” at Ohio State University was denied by the institution. Where does this end?
Last year Arday used Carter-Ruck, the anti-defamation specialist firm, to spike a Times Higher Education story about the claims. The police also launched an investigation into the journalist from THE who asked Arday questions following a complaint…
In 2018 Arday stood in a council election in Croydon for the Labour Party, securing 953 votes as the top Labour candidate in the Purley and Woodcote ward. The ward elected only Tories…
A version of Arday’s CV says under the “awards and recognition” section that he was “Selected as a Labour Candidate for the Counsellor position of Purley and Woodcote in the 2018 Local Elections.” No marks for spelling…
Jolyon’s Good Law Project is still trying to mount a defence of Arday by attacking “rightwing newspapers” who “are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism”. Now fellow left-winger Jolyon’s on his side, this can only go one way…
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.”