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Beware the cops who tell reporters it’s a crime to ask questions

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Jason Arday has quit his Cambridge professorship, but the affair of the fabulist academic won’t be over until many questions are answered — including how British cops came to treat Journalism 101 as a crime.

The Metropolitan Police spent months investigating reporter Jack Grove after he emailed questions to the prof.

Yes, long before the plagiarism allegations and other issues went public, Grove was working on a story for Times Higher Education about the academic record of Cambridge University’s youngest-ever black professor.

Questions that the authorities somehow determined to be racially motivated harassment, even telling Grove........

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