Lanre Bakare

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Today in Focus · Plagiarism and a pig’s head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

I think both of those things.

I don't think it was an accident that Jason came to me as a black journalist.

I think he wanted someone who would be sympathetic to his story and maybe genuinely handle it with care.

But I also think he maybe thought that I just believe him and went through some of the things that he said without doing due diligence on them.

Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out that when the Times High were looking into Professor Arday, he also instructed Carter Rook, who are notorious defamation lawyers.

And, you know, that's pretty strong.

Yeah, it is remarkable.

And I think it speaks to the lengths at which that presseradio went to try and stop this story coming out.

I wasn't surprised that he stood down.

I mean, the pressure that he must have been under is massive.

I mean, every single day, there were stories at one point coming like it fell every couple of hours.

The Times and the Telegraph were really going after the story and there was so much to pull out.

There were new threads every single day, new storylines coming out.

So he was under massive pressure.

I think Cambridge were also under pressure as well.

And looking at the two statements, or the three statements, because Jesus College also released one,

And that, to me, was obviously coordinated.

And Arday's statement was fascinating, in which he didn't accept any blame, which obviously you'd expect, considering he's said that he hasn't done anything wrong.

But he also kind of almost cleared the path for him for like a comeback.

And he said, essentially, he's going to kind of go away, take stock, get out of the public eye, because he's been under this intense pressure.

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