Whatever the sins and deceptions of the young man from south London, they are completely eclipsed by the fundamental fraud of the academics who used and abused him for their own selfish ends. the Cambridge dons will say, wringing their hands. At the time he was made a professor, Jason Arday had no real body of work to justify any such elevation. Cambridge university has openly and exultantly trashed that principle. They did not make this appointment on academic grounds and there is no way they can claim that they did.