Aug 16, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 11 segments
A public lynching, a media pile-on, and a university that should have stopped it but didn't. This episode goes straight at the Jason Arday story and asks the question everyone should be confronting…
And it has to be a really big question asked about how this happened, how he let it happen in terms of, you know, I'm talking about the Jason Arday case.
It's now the first big front page, first thing on the BBC news all over the world again.
But we have to be realistic about what happened and we have to be realistic about the response and the response that we gave.
Honestly, maybe I should have waited to do this, but sometimes you've got to make it plain.
I done told you before, this was a racist mob, led by the likes of Nathan Kofner, who believes that black people, literally just believes that black people aren't capable of don't have the intellectual capacity to be professors, let alone at Cambridge.
Before this, I didn't use that word last week because lynching is such a horrible act, right? Such a brutal act that arrives in the death of someone.
And so I've been getting a lot of phone calls from obviously from press press who's still handing him, by the way, press outside his parents' house.
And it has to be a really big question asked about how this happened, how he let it happen in terms of, you know, I'm talking about the Jason Arday case.
It's now the first big front page, first thing on the BBC news all over the world again.
But we have to be realistic about what happened and we have to be realistic about the response and the response that we gave.
Honestly, maybe I should have waited to do this, but sometimes you've got to make it plain.
I done told you before, this was a racist mob, led by the likes of Nathan Kofner, who believes that black people, literally just believes that black people aren't capable of don't have the intellectual capacity to be professors, let alone at Cambridge.
Before this, I didn't use that word last week because lynching is such a horrible act, right? Such a brutal act that arrives in the death of someone.
And so I've been getting a lot of phone calls from obviously from press press who's still handing him, by the way, press outside his parents' house.
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