Summer is a time for fleeting joys. Be it friendships, romances or hilarious stories about charlatan academics at the University of Cambridge: these fragile bringers of summer happiness cannot be expected to last much longer than the lifecycle of the butterfly. So it is that the Jason Arday saga is grinding to a halt. It has brought much amusement but now, as those who made their belligerent knee-jerk defences of Arday retreat back to their Masters’ Lodgings and professorial chairs, he is left to face the end of things alone. 

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Well, almost alone. As Arday’s resignation and its aftermath made the Today programme this morning, the BBC had managed to find someone still willing to – at least on paper – defend The Nutty Professor. Unfortunately, Professor Kehinde Andrews was determined to make things about himself. Things started badly when he was........

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