How Cambridge’s youngest black professor ‘conned’ Great Britain

 How did Jason Arday’s extraordinary claims travel from interview to interview without serious scrutiny? His rise and fall tells a larger story about Cambridge, imperial guilt, institutional theatre and the modern Britain that wanted to believe. How did Jason Arday’s extraordinary claims travel from interview to interview without serious scrutiny? His rise and fall tells a larger story about Cambridge, imperial guilt, institutional theatre and the modern Britain that wanted to believe.