Ep. 1824 - The Jason Arday Scandal Is EVEN Worse Than You Think artwork

Ep. 1824 - The Jason Arday Scandal Is EVEN Worse Than You Think

The Matt Walsh Show

August 18, 2026

Black Londoners gathered in Trafalgar Square to memorialize the lying professor who ended his life prematurely. The claims these leftists make are insane. Ep. 1824 - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - There’s a better wireless choice out there.
Speakers: Matt Walsh, Simon Woolley, Diane Abbott, Bill Rivera-Addy, Jason Arday

Topics: News Commentary, News

**Matt Walsh** (0:00)
Black Londoners and other leftists did not take to the streets in large numbers following the murder of Henry Novak, a white college student who was butchered on the sidewalk late last year in Southampton by a foreigner, only for the police to mock him as he took his dying breath. Nor did black Londoners and other leftists hold massive demonstrations after a disabled white guy was nearly beheaded in Belfast in the middle of the road by one of the millions of barbaric fake asylum seekers who had been allowed into Europe. And they certainly didn't hold any events in support of Anne Whitacombe, the elderly white conservative politician who was just brutally executed in her own home. She was hit 21 times on the head with a hammer simply because she wanted to end the mass demographic replacement that's been underway in the UK for many years now. None of these horrific events in the eyes of black British activists and other leftists merited any concern whatsoever. Instead, these ghouls have been biding their time, waiting for their very own George Floyd moment to galvanize their fellow communists. For years now, they've been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to canonize a homegrown BLM martyr, their very own, someone that can call their own, meaning a degenerate criminal, a liar, sociopath, who's a clear net negative for society. And with the untimely death of Jason Arday, the disgraced Cambridge Professor DEI hire who lied about every aspect of his life story while also fabricating data and pagerizing all of his important publications, it's clear that leftist mobs in Britain have finally found the martyr that they were waiting for. That's very evident based on the utterly deranged and psychotic display that just took place in Trafalgar Square in London on Monday in support of Arday. This was a cult-like event that has no parallel, at least going back to 2020 And the footage from this alleged vigil is genuinely hard to believe. It's so extraordinary that after we go through it, we have an obligation to look even closer at Jason Arday and his alleged quote unquote scholarship, which these leftists are defending, even though none of them have read his scholarship in the first place, none of them.
That's exactly what we're gonna do later on in the show. Together, we're gonna sit through one of Arday's lectures, or at least part of one, as much as we can stomach. We'll get to pretend to be Cambridge students for a day and we'll uncover just how vapid and mush brained this guy was. We'll also page through some of his research findings and we'll bask in the preposterous, almost unbelievable incompetence of this total fraud who the left is now desperately trying to turn into a BLM martyr. But first, let's talk about what happened in Trafalgar Square. So to recap the backstory, if you didn't listen to the show yesterday, Arday was a plagiarist, a thug, a criminal, a narcissist and a fraudster. He is now also dead after having apparently taken his own life. Although given his track record for honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if he were sitting on a beach somewhere right now. I mean, who knows? He was promoted to full professor by white liberal women at Cambridge, even though he lied about every single aspect of his life story. And even though he fabricated data in his academic work, in addition to plagiarizing entire passages across multiple articles, as well as his dissertation, Arday was hired for an extremely competitive position at one of the most famous universities in the world solely because he was black.
These people were desperate to find a competent black scholar, and they had to settle on Jason Arday. And once they hired him, because no one at Cambridge has any integrity, there was no looking back. So when he claimed that he ran 300 miles in three days, or that he or that invisible masked men with knives had chased him around campus, or that a pig's head was left on the front porch of his parents' house, or that he couldn't read or write until he was 18, or that he had multiple tumors and epilepsy, none of these obviously claims bothered anybody at Cambridge. They kept doubling down and tripling down, lashing out at anybody who told the truth. In the end, rather than face the consequences of his own actions, Arday chose to end his life and leave his two children behind. Now at the risk of understatement, there is no conceivable defense of Arday's actions, nor is there a legitimate line of attack against the media or against Nathan Kofnuss, who's the former Cambridge academic who publicized Arday's fraud this summer. Arday is the one who desperately courted media attention at every opportunity. He also wrote a memoir which he sold to Simon and Schuster that was full of outright lies about his biography. He went out of his way to deceive everybody in a very public fashion. When people raised questions about his research or about his biography, he brought in a law firm to harass them, even called the police, on a professor who noticed the plagiarism.

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