‘My friend Jason Arday was a kind-hearted soul — his death is a tragic waste of life’

Mirror man Simon Murphy, who played football for years with the former Cambridge University academic, remembers his late pal as ex-teammates also pay tribute

National Education Union (NEU) general secretary Daniel Kebede said Arday had been subjected to “a public and brutal takedown that unleashed a tirade of racism”.

Jason Arday told his friend Sir Simon Baron-Cohen that he spoke to the former University of Cambridge professor just hours before his death as he shared details of a voice note

Ex-Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead after he was embroiled in a plagarism row

‘He wasn’t coping with the loss of his career, the loss of his reputation’ - Autism Research Centre director Sir Simon Baron-Cohen

Jason Arday has been found dead (Picture: University of Cambridge Faculty/SWNS) A friend of former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday has spoken about receiving voice notes from the academic, saying that ‘he couldn’t go on’. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, University of Cambridge professor, and director

New oral history project eulogises slain Palestinian journalists via friends' voice notes MEE staff on Tue, 08/11/2026 - 16:56 The website's launch comes on the first anniversary of Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif A protester holds a photo of slain Al Jazeera journ