This is comedy turned to tragedy. What began the silly season as a satirical character of a race and minorities hustler that could have come from the pen of a Tom Wolfe or a Simon Raven turned into something closer to a mix of Ali G and Jay from the Inbetweeners. Jason Arday was not subject to 'a vile campaign of abuse', he was ridiculed and rightly so because his whole story was, basically, ridiculous.
The transition also moved from a satirical jab at the self serving nature and self regard of the 'Educational Establishment' to something more powerful in exposing the farce that is now the University 'Industry', where private equity sets up colleges that are basically visa factories for India, Bangladesh and Nigeria, where thousands of (mainly) Eastern Europeans appear to be granted right to remain status and use it to obtain billions in student loans that will never be paid back and where nobody asks "do we actually need a Professor of the Sociology of Education?"
It is sad that Jason Arday chose the 'easy way out' and left behind a wife and children and it is also sad that the ultimate taboo will now be employed to prevent any proper discussion of the rotten system that he, inadvertently, exposed.
The Good Law Project, which some suspect paid for Carter-Ruck to warn Jack Grove off investigating Arday, has raised 30,000 signatures for an investigation into a witchhunt. Never let a chance to introduce more censorship go begging. Zack Polanski, Carol Vorderman and other usual suspects are among the signatories.
This is comedy turned to tragedy. What began the silly season as a satirical character of a race and minorities hustler that could have come from the pen of a Tom Wolfe or a Simon Raven turned into something closer to a mix of Ali G and Jay from the Inbetweeners. Jason Arday was not subject to 'a vile campaign of abuse', he was ridiculed and rightly so because his whole story was, basically, ridiculous.
The transition also moved from a satirical jab at the self serving nature and self regard of the 'Educational Establishment' to something more powerful in exposing the farce that is now the University 'Industry', where private equity sets up colleges that are basically visa factories for India, Bangladesh and Nigeria, where thousands of (mainly) Eastern Europeans appear to be granted right to remain status and use it to obtain billions in student loans that will never be paid back and where nobody asks "do we actually need a Professor of the Sociology of Education?"
It is sad that Jason Arday chose the 'easy way out' and left behind a wife and children and it is also sad that the ultimate taboo will now be employed to prevent any proper discussion of the rotten system that he, inadvertently, exposed.
The Good Law Project, which some suspect paid for Carter-Ruck to warn Jack Grove off investigating Arday, has raised 30,000 signatures for an investigation into a witchhunt. Never let a chance to introduce more censorship go begging. Zack Polanski, Carol Vorderman and other usual suspects are among the signatories.