Aug 20, 2026 · 10 min · 5 segments
Prof. Jason Arday was hounded to death after a media campaign so intense, so vitriolic, so unrelenting, that it went beyond what you’d expect if he was a Cabinet minister guilty of grave corruption or…
Professor Jason Arday was hounded to death after a media campaign so intense, so vitriolic, so unrelenting, that it went beyond what you'd expect if he was, I don't know, a cabinet minister guilty of grave corruption or harm to others.
A university professor the vast majority of people had never previously heard of, and he certainly wasn't guilty of grave corruption or harm to others.
By contrast, they say, the UK media mentioned Peter Mandelson 119 times in the weeks after the Epstein files were released.
In 2023, they additionally say, a white Cambridge professor named William O'Reilly was found guilty of plagiarism, and only the Financial Times covered it.
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