The Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media’s disproportionate coverage of the academic’s life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network. Nafeez Ahmed reports

Jason Arday, the 41-year-old academic who resigned as Cambridge’s Professor of Sociology of Education, was found dead earlier this month following intense scrutiny of many aspects of his qualifications and personal life by the majority of the established press.

The coverage was fuelled by a campaign of coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network that did not come out of nowhere, Byline Times can reveal.

Backed by the pro-Trump Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, this network has spent a decade penetrating Cambridge University before reaching Reform UK, Restore Britain, and the pan-European far-right.