Jason Arday #2

[SunsetSmile]

She’s lucky she was at Roehampton just down the road from his house. I doubt his students had much opportunity to approach him about their grades or anything else in most of the other institutions he ‘worked’ at. Eg: while a full-time full professor (teaching and research, he’s at pains to clarify) at Glasgow he rocked up in the morning straight off a flight for three days a week and had already ducked off again by mid-afternoon, early enough to get to the airport, through security etc etc etc and get on a 4pm flight back to London. View attachment 4093521

I was telling someone about his flying to Glasgow. They said did the University pay? I had assumed that he would have had to meet this cost but now, having seen all the craziness, I'm wondering!

Same with Cambridge was residence requirement relaxed as an adjustment & were travel expenses paid? Tbf a residence requirement seems a bit archaic when someone could commute easily from certain parts (east/north) of London.

 

[Tootymcfroot]

I was telling someone about his flying to Glasgow. They said did the University pay? I had assumed that he would have had to meet this cost but now, having seen all the craziness, I'm wondering!

Same with Cambridge was residence requirement relaxed as an adjustment & were travel expenses paid? Tbf a residence requirement seems a bit archaic when someone could commute easily from certain parts (east/north) of London.

Without wishing to dox myself, as someone who lived in London for 5/6 years with a Cambridge fellowship, it's not that difficult to have the residency waived if you are present in cambridge for at least 3/4 of the term (8 weeks) - I just needed the College Council to agree, which they did. A university professor would either have to have the University Council and/or general Board to sign off - which I suspect they do often - Profs in law and business are often also in industry and live in London.

Cambridge is mad expensive - equal to most parts of London so most people live in the surrounding villages, but without a car you'd struggle. I can see why JA wouldn't have wanted to give up a house in Battersea if he owned it?

But living away means that you definitely miss out on the unique College experience, dinners etc and you're not arund to bump in to collegues and students on the street which happens alot.

There's a memorial to JA outside the University Senate House - flowers, candles and phots of him, I walked past this morning. Tourists taking selfies in front of it felt a bit too on the nose for this place...

 

[Valiofthedolls]

There's no bleeping way. I fly Manchester to Belfast Int. regularly, a shorter flight than London to Glasgow, but even then the times wouldn't really add up.

So you get up at 3am. Leave the house when, half 3? Travel to the airport, so get there when, maybe 4am (generous estimates here). Flight is presumably then around 6am. An hour and 20-30 minutes in the air, so we're at 7.30am and he's still on the plane. Then the plane does what it does (the last flight I got was taxiing from the runway to the terminal for 15 minutes then it took a bus ten minutes to get me to the actual door), then you have to get out of the airport and to work, it's rush hour by this point, so even if you're only going a few miles that takes time. You'd be lucky to get to work for 9. But you need to be back at the airport for 2pm if you're flying at 4pm.

Does anybody who believes this tit actually inhabit the real world?

At least while he was living in London and commuting to his full time job in Glasgow other than all his paid talks and other fame-chasing that was his only employment.

When he was working full-time at Leeds Beckett and commuting there from London, he also had (in London) an overnight Sainsbury’s shelf-stacking job, a morning cleaning job after he finished his shift at Sainsbury’s, and was also working on his PhD thesis (on the bus to and from Leeds) at the same time.

 

[nothanksbabes]

At least while he was living in London and commuting to his full time job in Glasgow other than all his paid talks and other fame-chasing that was his only employment.

When he was working full-time at Leeds Beckett and commuting there from London, he also had (in London) an overnight Sainsbury’s shelf-stacking job, a morning cleaning job after he finished his shift at Sainsbury’s, and was also working on his PhD thesis (on the bus to and from Leeds) at the same time.

I assume he also had 'time traveller' on his CV.

 

[Carefree]

What I have observed, and I’m sure lots of us have observed, is people like you who say they are left leaning, that dare to question anything that aligns to far left ideology, MUST be far right, masquerading as a leftist.
The far left have wrestled left wing politics away from those who identify as left leaning, left of the middle, and demonised those people, simply for asking questions. Questioning authority is how it should be. There is nothing controversial about it. They are creating an ‘us and them’ landscape that is just not conducive to living in a civilised society.

I've experienced and worked with many people whose entire culture goes against my very being and things I hold dearly. However, I mention it aloud and I'm a fascist. Nope, just very aware that theory isn't the same as reality.

But this isn't the thread for it and I don't want to derail this one. It's a deeply fascinating world currently.

 

[SunsetSmile]

"I can see why JA wouldn't have wanted to give up a house in Battersea if he owned it?"
@Tootymcfroot

It's his parents' council house - won't be precise although details are on X. I lived about 800m away for a few years in the 1990s & regularly jogged around Clapham Common & Battersea Park so knew the area very well.

Although transport is good to C London or to the South a commute to Cambridge wouldn't be so straightforward.

 

[Tootymcfroot]

"I can see why JA wouldn't have wanted to give up a house in Battersea if he owned it?"
@Tootymcfroot

It's his parents' council house - won't be precise although details are on X. I lived about 800m away for a few years in the 1990s & regularly jogged around Clapham Common & Battersea Park so knew the area very well.

Although transport is good to C London or to the South a commute to Cambridge wouldn't be so straightforward.

Interesting, thanks for the info. Did I read somewhere else - maybe in a screenshot of the book? That he was caring for his parenats which is why he had to do a daily communte to Glasgow, maybe that was part of it too.

Commute to Cambridge can be annoying from south of river, although there is a rare ninja train that runs through Elephant and Castle all the way down to Brighton!

Having had radio silence initially when this started, communications from the University are now daily and my College (not Jesus) sending all points comms to staff/students/fellows sign-posting what the VC has said.

I think it this had happened in term time there would be protests but there are so few students and academics around right now.

 

[emm]

I assume he also had 'time traveller' on his CV.

That'd be less unrealistic than a lot of what is in the book

 

[Jelly Bean]

I’m curious to know which section Waterstones is going to stock it. Fictional or Non-fiction. Humour? Running marathons with a broken leg sounds like a Dom Jolly Trigger Happy sketch.

He should've done what Jessica Taylor did to excuse the more obvious and ridiculous lies in her last book and call it 'lightly dramatised'.
These included Tattle plots to 'end her'.

 

[SunsetSmile]

Mum had glaucoma & dad arthritis (?) which are not incredibly rare but suppose it depends on severity. From the book extracts he seemed to have a very close relationship with his mum & sought her advice even as a middle age man. I'm theorising that his parents' home was his anchoring place. He refers to it as his house but there's no evidence he bought it / owned it.

Mum must still be in her 60s since he referenced her being mid 20s when he was a toddler on her hip.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

Interesting, thanks for the info. Did I read somewhere else - maybe in a screenshot of the book? That he was caring for his parenats which is why he had to do a daily communte to Glasgow, maybe that was part of it too.

Commute to Cambridge can be annoying from south of river, although there is a rare ninja train that runs through Elephant and Castle all the way down to Brighton!

Having had radio silence initially when this started, communications from the University are now daily and my College (not Jesus) sending all points comms to staff/students/fellows sign-posting what the VC has said.

I think it this had happened in term time there would be protests but there are so few students and academics around right now.

Yes, he says they “needed him at home”. His dad had sciatica and his mum glaucoma (and during the pandemic he says she has ‘respiratory issues’). Sounds from the book that he’s only ever lived with his parents or with Deb. He moved back in with his parents when he and Deb split in 2019 and stayed there.

ETA: sorry! I didn’t see @SunsetSmile had already responded while I was looking for the right bits!

 

[InkHeart]

I was watching a video earlier with Camilla Tominey and Jacob Rees Mogg, which came out last week, where she told an anecdote about his time at Roehampton, I think, where he marked a students work at 70%, and this student approached him to say she was told she was averaging 75%, and his response was to say that was because of her white privilege. It’s little stories like this, that really make me realise that this guy was quite unpleasant. I feel if he’s doing that to students looking up to him, then he was misusing his power to undermine them and dare I say effectively to admonish white students.

He was siccing police and lawyers on people who were asking legitimate questions, but when the public and press (no police or lawyers!) turned on him, he couldn't handle it. Did he have any empathy for how he made those people feel when he accused them of being terrible racist people and tried to get them arrested and destroy their careers when they had done nothing wrong? I imagine not.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

This is an interesting article about fabulism (disclaimer: I am not a psychologist)

Fabulist Psychology: Unraveling the Mind of Compulsive Liars

Explore the psychology of fabulists, their characteristics, impacts, and treatment options. Gain insights into the complex world of compulsive lying.

neurolaunch.com

But really it’s the combination of this and being enabled by institutions that stoked the fire of his fabulism. If someone had challenged him and asked him hard questions, we may not be where we are now. But it seems like everyone just looked at him misty eyed and handed him another job.

He only interviewed 4 people for his PhD. I cannot imagine how John Moores thought this was a robust enough sample size to draw any meaningful conclusions. I can get my mates round for the evening and tell you exactly what the main concerns are in our town. Only they won’t be. They’ll be the main concerns that my mates have who aren’t a representative sample size.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

I am curious to hear more about his colleague Debbie who he references in his paper
"Walls Can Come Tumbling Down: Negotiating Normative Whiteness, Racial Micro-aggressions and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) mental health within the Academy."

It seems she was cottoning on to his fraud so he started a dossier of her ‘micro aggressions’ so that he could have his ‘day of reckoning’.

It’s sadly paywalled - there is an abstract which appears littered with errors though - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23793406.2019.1574211

 

[The Skeptical Gerbil]

So he was caring for his parents while spending at least ten hours a day on the train plus how ever many hours he spent in Glasgow pretending to teach.
Did he wake his parents up when he got home to provide such care ?

 

[Valiofthedolls]

I am curious to hear more about his colleague Debbie who he references in his paper
"Walls Can Come Tumbling Down: Negotiating Normative Whiteness, Racial Micro-aggressions and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) mental health within the Academy."

It seems she was cottoning on to his fraud so he started a dossier of her ‘micro aggressions’ so that he could have his ‘day of reckoning’.

It’s sadly paywalled - there is an abstract which appears littered with errors though - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23793406.2019.1574211

So a 20-page academic paper about…his own personal experiences? How rigorous.

 

[TrashleenMoron]

I doubt he actually did anything for them. Their conditions weren't nothing, but they also weren't "we need a live-in carer."

I think he just wanted the kudos for being the one to look after them.

 

[emm]

Many years ago I started a new job. On my first day I was introduced to about 30 departmental colleagues. There was about 10 B&ME staff. People were in & out on projects & it was a hotdesking office. Few days later I was at service line meeting (so new dept + other teams).

I introduced myself to people I didn't recognise. One black woman coldly told me I'd met her on Day1. I was mortified and spent a few days stress panicking she thought I was a biased white woman. She had been WAH & had changed her hair by adding a weave. I don't recognise faces particularly well in real life & if people are average (average height/weight/standard facial features no moles/marks etc) I struggle.

As I got to know her I really liked her - she had a wicked, biting sense of humour & I can be quite witty so we gelled. And then she discriminated against me. I didn't have my diagnosis at the time to be able to call out her bullying but it was horrific & at the level where it could have led to someone harming themself. It's difficult to flesh this out more but today I would have had a clear cut disability discrimination/harassment claim.

I understand this was no doubt really upsetting, but putting this random personal example ina. Thread like this isn't really helpful imo and is just the kind of thing critics of tattle will jump on. Sorry if I'm overstepping but it doesn't seem at all relevant to this thread

 

[Valiofthedolls]

So he was caring for his parents while spending at least ten hours a day on the train plus how ever many hours he spent in Glasgow pretending to teach.
Did he wake his parents up when he got home to provide such care ?

Well, if he was getting up at 3am and getting on a plane at 4pm for a journey that took five hours each way, it’s fortunate that caring for his parents entailed just shouting out at them from his bedroom- when he could even manage that.

His parents didn’t bother to check on him even though he was their primary carer, they just “must have assumed he had COVID”.

 

[Vanelope]

He reads just like Jack Monroe, the special brain seeing colours etc etc