He's awful. And a crappy boss too, by all accounts. The GLP is a grift machine that does more to fluff JoMo's ego and raise cash from the gullible to pay their own lawyers to work on hopeless cases than anything positive in law that might actually help people. Their legal track record is abysmal, and their whole business model shady as duck, IMHO.Uggggggh, old Jolyon makes me boak, such an odious, creepy, animal killing misogynist. In case anyone hasn’t had the pleasure of clapping eyes on him, treat yourself…
*Pic two is his bumping and grinding with Beth Ditto. Bad vibes, even worse dancing.
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Simon & Schuster are not exactly covering themselves with glory at the minute.
I kind of hope this is true and they have paid him this ridiculous sum
" One senior publisher said it was an utterly mad number, but that “madness sometimes happens”, so it was conceivable. They said a book such as Arday’s would normally be expected to sell around 5,000 copies, so with £2 of royalty per copy, that equates to an advance of £10,000, not 1.4 million dollars or pounds. "
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" One senior publisher said it was an utterly mad number, but that “madness sometimes happens”, so it was conceivable. They said a book such as Arday’s would normally be expected to sell around 5,000 copies, so with £2 of royalty per copy, that equates to an advance of £10,000, not 1.4 million dollars or pounds. "
Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ for memoir from publish…
archived 6 Aug 2026 13:42:50 UTC
Although they're nicely continuing to expose just how murky the publishing world is.
Polanski is still defending him, I guess birds of a feather
We have a book review - Sarah Ditum for The Times
“Even for the not-notably-modest genre of the inspirational poverty-porn memoir, Arday lays it on a bit thick. He compares himself at various points with Rocky (driven, gritty), Forrest Gump (simple, wise) and God. Seriously: his mother apparently believed that “just because God wasn’t always visible, that didn’t mean he wasn’t there”, and held that the same must be true for Arday’s intelligence.
And that points to the ultimate cruelty of this story. Arday’s self-mythologising is very funny, but it has done real damage — most significantly to non-verbal children and their families. By promoting the medically unusual story of his own late-childhood flourishing, Arday is creating false hope. Parents will blame themselves, wrongly, for not living up to the impossible standard of Giff.”
Jason Arday's memoir is mawkish, self-aggrandising and hard to believe
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“Even for the not-notably-modest genre of the inspirational poverty-porn memoir, Arday lays it on a bit thick. He compares himself at various points with Rocky (driven, gritty), Forrest Gump (simple, wise) and God. Seriously: his mother apparently believed that “just because God wasn’t always visible, that didn’t mean he wasn’t there”, and held that the same must be true for Arday’s intelligence.
And that points to the ultimate cruelty of this story. Arday’s self-mythologising is very funny, but it has done real damage — most significantly to non-verbal children and their families. By promoting the medically unusual story of his own late-childhood flourishing, Arday is creating false hope. Parents will blame themselves, wrongly, for not living up to the impossible standard of Giff.”
Jason Arday's memoir is mawkish, self-aggrandising and hard to believe
Jason Arday’s memoir is mawkish, self-aggrandising and hard to believe
archived 6 Aug 2026 14:10:11 UTC
She's called Giff, but he's barely a JPEG
I just think people who say “oh well it just shows that all these “diversity hires” don’t have the skills/only get where they are because of the colour of their skin etc to make a place look good” are actually just being racist though and that needs to be called out.
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I would be mortified if I was an author with a contract with them.
* bursts-in puffing and panting into thread *
MORE LIKE LIE-MAN & SHYSTER!!!
* sits back all smug like man behaving dadly *
MORE LIKE LIE-MAN & SHYSTER!!!
* sits back all smug like man behaving dadly *
Sure, but I doubt we'd be where we are with Arday if Cambridge hadn't been so desperate to have their "youngest ever black Professor" that they didn't bother to assess him with basic common sense let alone background checks.
That doesn't mean any of their other black academics or those from other minority backgrounds aren't eminently qualified but it just gives the people you're talking about more ammunition.
Wonder if the people who left gushing GoodRead reviews are questioning their life choices?
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Ditum makes a good point in her review - the overcoming nonverbal autism is the cruellest part of this story. Parents of autistic children constantly feel like there’s something else they should be doing, something more they should be trying, to transform their child into a ‘normal’ and productive member of society. This book is just another stick to beat them with
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Ditum makes a good point in her review - the overcoming nonverbal autism is the cruellest part of this story. Parents of autistic children constantly feel like there’s something else they should be doing, something more they should be trying, to transform their child into a ‘normal’ and productive member of society. This book is just another stick to beat them with
Yes it gives racists something to use as ammunition, not that they need it.
Have we had confirmation of background checks being put aside by Cambridge, and that the reasons were because of race? Or are you assuming. I mean there are plenty of Walter Mitty types in the world, look at The Salt Path, half the grifters on here, who checks anything properly?
Or are you buying in to the racist trope of assuming he got the job because he’s black?
Cambridge Uni has a history of very poor management practice all around) if you’re familiar with it) this isn’t surprising to me.
I think that’s what gets missed when people say it makes it harder for others, instead of just accepting that it will be used we need to call out exactly what is the racism, instead of just saying it’s unfair that it will have an on others.
It’s the racism that’s unfair, from racists.
Centre that, not one idiot “professor”, not the imagined impact, centre the racist weaponising an incident in a racist way to justify racism.
That does sound rather unlikely. I thought enormous advances were a thing of the past, even for big names. That said, Simon & Schuster are putting a lot into this book (well, they were anyway) - a US and UK book tour, for example. Though I'd be surprised if that's still going ahead. But it shows they were banking on it being a big deal.I kind of hope this is true and they have paid him this ridiculous sum
" One senior publisher said it was an utterly mad number, but that “madness sometimes happens”, so it was conceivable. They said a book such as Arday’s would normally be expected to sell around 5,000 copies, so with £2 of royalty per copy, that equates to an advance of £10,000, not 1.4 million dollars or pounds. "
Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ for memoir from publish…
archived 6 Aug 2026 13:42:50 UTC
It might still be of course, but not for the reasons they'd hoped.
The fact that I found this thread under ‘Guru’ is taking me out 
Edit: Actually, forget it. Not worth my time.
There's no way someone who wasn't a celebrity got £1.4 million.That does sound rather unlikely. I thought enormous advances were a thing of the past, even for big names. That said, Simon & Schuster are putting a lot into this book (well, they were anyway) - a US and UK book tour, for example. Though I'd be surprised if that's still going ahead. But it shows they were banking on it being a big deal.
It might still be of course, but not for the reasons they'd hoped.
5000 sounds way too low with the amount of review copies they've sent out and the UK and us tour.I kind of hope this is true and they have paid him this ridiculous sum
" One senior publisher said it was an utterly mad number, but that “madness sometimes happens”, so it was conceivable. They said a book such as Arday’s would normally be expected to sell around 5,000 copies, so with £2 of royalty per copy, that equates to an advance of £10,000, not 1.4 million dollars or pounds. "
Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ for memoir from publish…
archived 6 Aug 2026 13:42:50 UTC
They might have expected 5000 in week one, but seems like they were expecting big numbers.
I can't understand why, though? Or was he well known and I've just missed him this whole time?
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