I suggest there is a pathological and depressing reluctance to be 'blunt' amongst the Establishment, amongst the Great & the Good, and generally among the Left.
I heartily applaud your position and your bluntness - please come back to GB News; you were one of the few Left Wingers who deployed critical thinking, logic and accuracy, you're greatly missed.
The road to hell is often paved with good intentions.
I know it wont happen in my lifetime but one day I would like people to be selected / appointed/ employed based on "merit " ( sorry for writing such a dirty word on your substack) .
I am surprised that no one has ever tried it .
Have a lovely week Paul and other readers 😃
Ps I notice football season has resumed....... may I wish Wolves all the best in their efforts to return to league 1 😉
Very good piece which I do agree with. There is a balance to be struck though.
After a few days, the opportunity was missed in some quarters to broaden the critique from just Arday alone and to take on the woke establishment more broadly. I'm sure if the 'Critical Whiteness Studies' tree was shaken, quite a few dodgy characters might fall from it! And quite a few universities could be questioned about recruitment decisions in this and allied woke fields. He is probably just the tip of the iceberg, albeit an extreme case. Most doctrines with quite a bit of falsehood at their core, rely heavily on censorship and intimidation to silence opposition, and wokeism/DEI is no exception.
It takes rather more courage to attack such a powerful and aggressive establishment movement, than it does to pick on one solitary man or woman, once they are exposed and vulnerable. All too quickly, a poster boy for the woke movement can become a tokenistic whipping boy for those who oppose it. And I think that did happen to an extent here.
Hi Paul, well argued (as I have very much come to expect).
Your comment that DEI, especially when applied so zealously, creates its own victims who are often individuals its adherents claim to be assisting, reminds me of John McWhorter's book 'Woke Racism' which explores how black Americans have been betrayed by woke ideology. The ideology, and its associated DEI industry, are actually racist against whites and blacks.
A great piece. You have expressed brilliantly something I felt but have struggled to explain to friends who are screaming that Jason Arday was subjected to a racist witch hunt! Thank you!
Thanks very much, Paul. Here is another well known story of a white academic fabulist,Marie Hingst, who sadly killed herself after her inventions came to light.
What was interesting was the contrast between the German and the Irish coverage of her self-invention as a Jewish woman related to multiple Holocaust victims. The German press focused on the outrageous and offensive aspects of the fraud. Not surprising, given German sensitivity about the Holocaust. The Irish writers focussed on her vulnerability and her need for mental health support.
Like your black Fire Brigade colleague with his fake credentials, it is desperately sad when such fabulists commit suicide. I had two colleagues in my office kill themselves in 1991 and saw something of the resulting grief. But honest investigators must not be deterred from honestly investigating grotesque falsifications.
Great article Paul. Agree 100%. re DEI remember doing TU equalities / DEI training years ago with a tutor, someone who I suspect is a mutual friend, and he, and the class, were in complete agreement that equalities was used by the Blairites to deflect from class politics and re-instating real trade union / workers rights.
Also re Arday specifically while he clearly was no angel - Carter Ruck ffs :-D - he clearly had skills that could and should have been utilised - just not the job he was put into.
An excellent piece Paul. Yes it is very sad that anyone should take their own life but the howl of racism still goes up, even though it had nothing whatsover to do with race, apart, that is, from his appointment. Nothing seems to be able to stop it, it simply goes on and on. We rely on these universities to bring forth those whose intelligence can help our society, figures like Turing but it seems everything now must lie on the alter of race. I just cannot get my head round the sheer stupidity of it all. It's just another day where I feel alienated from the world , from the society I was brought up in. Very, very depressing.
Fantastic article. I cannot get my head round why supporters of EDI cannot see the damage it is doing to society. I felt as a student in the 80s and as my career took off the 90s that I was living in a golden era where we really didn’t see race anymore. Yes it wasn’t perfect but we weren’t hamstrung by the racial issues that infected the US. Integration seemed to be working. I had friends of every race and religion.
Then for some reason we decided to throw it all away and turn MLK’s dream on its head. Well nice one libtards! Now I am sorry to say I see race everywhere and what I’m seeing doesn’t fill me with joy it makes me want to run up a St George’s flag and focus on my own tribe. I don’t feel welcome in much of my own country. Birmingham, where I was born, looks like Mogadishu.
"Birmingham, where I was born, looks like Mogadishu" You sure?? :-D You could make an argument that bits of Brum look like Kashmir - bits I quite like - good shops and restaurants and I've never felt unwelcome - but Mogadishu? Less than 1% of people in Brum are from Somalia. Think you want to feel unwelcome tbh.
Cracking and forensic article, Paul, thank you.
I suggest there is a pathological and depressing reluctance to be 'blunt' amongst the Establishment, amongst the Great & the Good, and generally among the Left.
I heartily applaud your position and your bluntness - please come back to GB News; you were one of the few Left Wingers who deployed critical thinking, logic and accuracy, you're greatly missed.
One of your best commentaries, Paul.
Hi ya Paul 👋
The road to hell is often paved with good intentions.
I know it wont happen in my lifetime but one day I would like people to be selected / appointed/ employed based on "merit " ( sorry for writing such a dirty word on your substack) .
I am surprised that no one has ever tried it .
Have a lovely week Paul and other readers 😃
Ps I notice football season has resumed....... may I wish Wolves all the best in their efforts to return to league 1 😉
Your last sentence resounds, Paul. Yes.
Very good piece which I do agree with. There is a balance to be struck though.
After a few days, the opportunity was missed in some quarters to broaden the critique from just Arday alone and to take on the woke establishment more broadly. I'm sure if the 'Critical Whiteness Studies' tree was shaken, quite a few dodgy characters might fall from it! And quite a few universities could be questioned about recruitment decisions in this and allied woke fields. He is probably just the tip of the iceberg, albeit an extreme case. Most doctrines with quite a bit of falsehood at their core, rely heavily on censorship and intimidation to silence opposition, and wokeism/DEI is no exception.
It takes rather more courage to attack such a powerful and aggressive establishment movement, than it does to pick on one solitary man or woman, once they are exposed and vulnerable. All too quickly, a poster boy for the woke movement can become a tokenistic whipping boy for those who oppose it. And I think that did happen to an extent here.
Hi Paul, well argued (as I have very much come to expect).
Your comment that DEI, especially when applied so zealously, creates its own victims who are often individuals its adherents claim to be assisting, reminds me of John McWhorter's book 'Woke Racism' which explores how black Americans have been betrayed by woke ideology. The ideology, and its associated DEI industry, are actually racist against whites and blacks.
And I have just come across an article by McWhorter about the Arday case: https://www.city-journal.org/article/jason-arday-cambridge-tokenism-dei-woke
A great piece. You have expressed brilliantly something I felt but have struggled to explain to friends who are screaming that Jason Arday was subjected to a racist witch hunt! Thank you!
Thanks very much, Paul. Here is another well known story of a white academic fabulist,Marie Hingst, who sadly killed herself after her inventions came to light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Sophie_Hingst
What was interesting was the contrast between the German and the Irish coverage of her self-invention as a Jewish woman related to multiple Holocaust victims. The German press focused on the outrageous and offensive aspects of the fraud. Not surprising, given German sensitivity about the Holocaust. The Irish writers focussed on her vulnerability and her need for mental health support.
Like your black Fire Brigade colleague with his fake credentials, it is desperately sad when such fabulists commit suicide. I had two colleagues in my office kill themselves in 1991 and saw something of the resulting grief. But honest investigators must not be deterred from honestly investigating grotesque falsifications.
Well said, William. And thanks for the link. I wasn't familiar with the Hingst case.
Great article Paul. Agree 100%. re DEI remember doing TU equalities / DEI training years ago with a tutor, someone who I suspect is a mutual friend, and he, and the class, were in complete agreement that equalities was used by the Blairites to deflect from class politics and re-instating real trade union / workers rights.
Also re Arday specifically while he clearly was no angel - Carter Ruck ffs :-D - he clearly had skills that could and should have been utilised - just not the job he was put into.
Very sad Marra.
Obviously the link between this chap and WB resonates.
The fact is if due diligence was carried out in the first place none of these tragic events would have occurred.
Such a well written articulate piece. Nothing like else to add.
An excellent piece Paul. Yes it is very sad that anyone should take their own life but the howl of racism still goes up, even though it had nothing whatsover to do with race, apart, that is, from his appointment. Nothing seems to be able to stop it, it simply goes on and on. We rely on these universities to bring forth those whose intelligence can help our society, figures like Turing but it seems everything now must lie on the alter of race. I just cannot get my head round the sheer stupidity of it all. It's just another day where I feel alienated from the world , from the society I was brought up in. Very, very depressing.
The 'Equality' Act is really no such thing. Some are more equal than others. It should be scrapped along the Human Rights Act.
Fantastic article. I cannot get my head round why supporters of EDI cannot see the damage it is doing to society. I felt as a student in the 80s and as my career took off the 90s that I was living in a golden era where we really didn’t see race anymore. Yes it wasn’t perfect but we weren’t hamstrung by the racial issues that infected the US. Integration seemed to be working. I had friends of every race and religion.
Then for some reason we decided to throw it all away and turn MLK’s dream on its head. Well nice one libtards! Now I am sorry to say I see race everywhere and what I’m seeing doesn’t fill me with joy it makes me want to run up a St George’s flag and focus on my own tribe. I don’t feel welcome in much of my own country. Birmingham, where I was born, looks like Mogadishu.
"Birmingham, where I was born, looks like Mogadishu" You sure?? :-D You could make an argument that bits of Brum look like Kashmir - bits I quite like - good shops and restaurants and I've never felt unwelcome - but Mogadishu? Less than 1% of people in Brum are from Somalia. Think you want to feel unwelcome tbh.
Hi Paul, you make like my recent investigation which goes into what Arday said about autism in some detail.
https://cartrarian.substack.com/p/jason-arday-lied-about-being-autistic