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Jason Arday’s Cambridge grift ends — but the post-BLM reckoning has just begun

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So he’s gone: Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s scandal-ridden professor, has resigned.

The “rock-star academic” famous for his long hair and tall tales has fallen on his sword following media exposés of his plagiarized Ph.D. dissertation and his fabulist claims of racial oppression.

Yet while the disgraced dreadlocked prof might be shuffling off into ignominy, this disaster is far from over.

We need to ask why so many prestigious institutions — not only Cambridge but the entirety of English academia — fell for this man’s grift.

The real story here is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it — the inevitable consequence of the intellectual class’ craven cave to the cult of BLM.

Arday was what came of the Western elites’ sacrifice of excellence at the altar of white guilt.

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And it will take more than his resignation to undo the society-wrecking legacy of the BLM derangement.

The Arday scandal really is mad. 

It started with newspaper reports that he had plagiarized around 100 passages in his Ph.D. dissertation.

Then questions were asked — finally — about some........

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