White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

I hadn't realised that Cofnas is trying to do the thing I've been worried was possible for a while, which is try and get "race realist" (racist) beliefs protected as philosophical beliefs under the UK's somewhat fucked equality law. www.varsity.co.uk/news/31093

‘Race realist’ fellow: College ‘actively encouraged’ protests for my sacking

Nathan Cofnas provided no evidence for his allegations against emmanuel College

varsity.co.uk

This is one of those phrases they’ve convinced themselves people think is smart because they only talk to people on twitter. In real life people are happy to go along with cuts but want to convince themselves it’s helping because they want to see themselves as good so this just sounds insane & cruel

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5h ago

"This is not generosity. It is suicidal empathy" writes Robert Jenrick (Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...) quotes in para 3 of the BBC report, with a link. "Suicidal empathy" is also the core phrase Elon Musk wants to popularise to promote remigration, political violence + civil war

Watch the scene in The Death of Yigoslavia where Milošević is confronted by Serbian Nationalists in Kosovo. You can see the gears turning in his head as he realises that this is a force he can tap into to further his own ends. That's the type of man Robert Jenrick is

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5h ago

"This is not generosity. It is suicidal empathy" writes Robert Jenrick (Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...) quotes in para 3 of the BBC report, with a link. "Suicidal empathy" is also the core phrase Elon Musk wants to popularise to promote remigration, political violence + civil war

Well that's fucking awful I hope their landlord is at least Asif Aziz

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 6h ago

“The wand chooses the wizard.” 🪄 And in this case, it chose Oxford Street. Congratulations to Warner Bros on the UK’s largest Harry Potter shop. Another brilliant new destination for the West End, and proof that Oxford Street is well and truly on the up.

A former director of BBC News speaks:

Richard Sambrook@sambrook.eurosky.social · 5h ago

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

Nigel Farage’s two biggest personal donors, Christopher Harborne and George Cottrell, can both be linked to a betting platform implicated in potentially illegal gambling in the UK. With Venetia Menzies @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social @manumidolo.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Nigel Farage donors’ links to betting service implicated in potential illegal gambling

Christopher Harborne and George Cottrell have both been connected to the unlicensed platform Tether.bet, which shut last week

thetimes.com

The genius of George Osborne: cut investment when money is cheap so that you have to do much more of it when money is expensive

Gareth Dennis@garethdennis.uk · 2d ago

Since 2015, under changes instigated by its then chair, Network Rail radically changed the rate and scale of its track renewals programme. Since the demise of the national High Output fleet, renewals have not kept pace. Time for some difficult questions to be put to government.

‘I wanted to impress my boss, Piers Morgan’

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 6mo ago

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

We know why they’re doing this - if only we had a Culture Secretary who could look into the far right failures left at the BBC to make it worse

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 15h ago

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i'm seeing a lot of people (right and left) give nathan cofnas "credit" for the campaign against jason arday, and he's reveling in that attention, but cofnas is just a halfwit with a shitty substack who received leaked information and posted it. he is a cretin, but first and foremost he's nobody.

Imagine being such a creep even Hefner thinks “we’ve got to call the feds on this guy”

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 3d ago

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.

quite apart from anything else, it’s very hard to argue that Johann Hari’s route back from ignominy was via sincere contrition

Richard Carr@richardcarr.bsky.social · 24h ago

There’s a specific tone and lane here that’s abhorrent

I cannot believe this man has been rehabilitated. He weaseled himself into academia after engaging in an academic publishing back and forth normalizing notorious antisemite Kevin MacDonald. This was maybe 5 years ago tops. I wasn't even in the field and I knew about it.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.

Darkly funny what kind of posts will generate a pile-on if the circumstances are right.

not an art thief@famousartthief.bsky.social · yesterday

shooting people in the street is bad. this is somehow a defense of capitalism. man just don’t shoot people. goddamn, did you all drink mercury.

The right is just the most pathetic people constantly crying how unfair it is they are expected to take responsibility for their own actions

Ciaran@ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Like clockwork

Why do they all yearn to be Liberace

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Grok, show me Boss Hogg if he was a massive nonce.”

Hello, I'm mental

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · yesterday

I think functionally all of the post-resignation coverage that was about him rather than Cambridge was excessive (e.g. this poisonous review of a book nobody is going to buy - why)

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

this isn't even a hypothetical because O'Reilly is still in post. it's an a/b demonstration.

Dr Anke Marsh@ankemarsh.bsky.social · 2d ago

If Arday had been white… Whatever he did, he didn’t deserve to be literally hounded to death. RIP

No one wants this! Westminster has redicalosed itself against net zero targets. The public has not! These policies are popular, not least because the public only has to look out the window to see the need for climate action.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

it's just objectively true that of the statements "children should not die of preventable diseases" and "black guys should not be allowed to have smart guy jobs" the media cares about and believes much more ardently in the latter

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 2d ago

You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.

Again I note that parts of the right are literally trying to turn empathy into a negative and that this is a bad thing.

Also... it didn't? Even if there was a monolithic worldview that exists only in her imagination then it didn't.

Martin Headon@martinheadon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well. Glad you had your fun, I guess.

It’s depressing how little outrage there was at the BBC inviting this nazi over for a friendly chat on the sofa a few weeks ago. We don’t have to get used to this

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

The term “goyslop” emerged out of online neo-Nazi discourse as a shorthand for the supposed Jewish/Communist conspiracy to use the media, marketing, medicine, & mass consumption to drain white men of their manly essence & lull them into complacency so as to make possible one world Jewish domination.

I'm sorry... 'Prof Gone'? They made a man's sacking the main news story for weeks as the country went on fire, which might have contributed to his death and 'Prof Gone'? This is the same clique that wept & wailed for a week when we dared mention their dinner party pal was a wife beating nonce.

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.