Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies.

Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs

Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs

The death of Arday is not only dreadful – it is enraging. It feels like a catastrophe foretold. Indeed, some of us wondered out loud if Arday had friends around him as the media storm over his alleged fabulism grew and went global. It was reckless in the extreme for the intellectual elites to fashion a new ‘black genius’ and then say ‘Oops’ when his carefully curated legend started to fray at the seams.........

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