The number of people admitted to German trauma centres with life-threatening stab wounds linked to violent crime has risen sharply over the past decade, according to an analysis of data from hundreds of hospitals.
The study by the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU), published in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt, examined 3,664 seriously injured patients treated at 600 German hospitals between 2013 and 2024.
The number of such cases rose from 212 in 2013 to 336 in 2024, an increase of almost 59%. The figure peaked at 382 in 2023.
Although knife-related injuries remain a small proportion of all serious trauma cases, their share increased from 0.95% in 2013 to 1.47% in 2023. Around 72% of patients required emergency surgery, while 8.2% died during their hospital stay.
The injuries were concentrated particularly in the chest and abdomen, with 61.5% and 39.8% of patients respectively suffering injuries to these areas. The authors warned that such cases pose a particular challenge to trauma teams because penetrating injuries remain relatively uncommon in everyday hospital practice.
According to Frank Hildebrand, the President of DGU,
The treatment of stab wounds is much more common in our everyday work today than it was ten years ago.
The victims also differed markedly from the wider population of seriously injured patients. Their average age was 34.2 years and 85.5% were male.
The increase was particularly pronounced in densely populated areas. Between 2019 and 2023, Germany recorded an average of 1.87 serious stab injuries linked to suspected violent crime per 100,000 inhabitants.
Rates were more than twice the national average in the most densely populated areas. Berlin, Munich, Cologne, and Frankfurt were among the cities in the highest-density category.
The findings come amid wider concerns about violent and knife-related crime in Germany linked to mass immigration.
Official police statistics for 2025 recorded around 29,000 knife-related offences, equivalent to roughly 80 incidents a day. Around half involved the use of knives in acts of violence, while the remainder involved threats or intimidation.
The DGU study covers only the most serious cases and therefore does not capture the many victims who survive less severe stab wounds or those who die before reaching hospital.
The study did not record information about victims’ nationality, social background, the identity or nationality of suspects, or the motives behind the attacks.
However, official police data shows that non-German nationals are significantly overrepresented among perpetrators of violent crime, including knife attacks.
The U.K. is at it again, blocking a Finnish parliamentarian, Päivi Räsänen. from entering the United Kingdom based on a “hate speech” conviction hung on her for quoting the Bible and defending Scripture, according to Alliance Defending Freedom CEO Kristen Waggoner.
Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen was once again blocked from entering the United Kingdom due to her “hate speech” conviction for defending Scripture, according to Alliance Defending Freedom CEO Kristen Waggoner. Räsänen is a member of Finnish Parliament’s “Friends of the United Kingdom” group.
URGENT: My friend Päivi Räsänen—a doctor, grandmother, member of Finnish parliament, and devout Christian—was invited to speak at a religious liberty conference this week in Northern Ireland.
Ironically, Räsänen is apparently a member of the Finnish Parliament’s “Friends of the United Kingdom” group. With friends like today’s U.K., who needs enemies?
This is the second time in as many months that Räsänen has been denied entry to the U.K. Last month, Räsänen — a doctor, grandmother, member of Finnish parliament, and devout Christian– was informed that she could not travel through London’s Heathrow Airport after speaking at an ADF conference.
I will leave it up to you to decide which one of those attributes U.K. authorities were uncomfortable with.
Räsänen was recently invited to speak at a religious liberty conference in Northern Ireland, but the U.K. refused to let her enter the country, due to her “hate speech” conviction for authoring a church pamphlet on Biblical marriage back in 2004.
But, Quran O.K. “Allahu Akhbar” no problem. Translation: Oppressing women and murdering infidels such as gays and lesbians is fine, but quoting a Bible passage or two suggesting that same sex encounters may be sinful is right out. Better to just throw gays and lesbians off rooftops or stone them to death. (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity baby! DIE!) Seems like quite a bit of toxic masculinity for such a weak tit country, doesn’t it?
The U.K., once the greatest military power on Earth, can no longer effectively defend itself. And it will not defend its young lasses from Muslim rape gangs.
I bet those two things are related.
Christendom, as evidenced by the U.K.’s abject surrender, is not long for this world, praise be to Allah.
No wonder the most popular name for a baby boy in the U.K. in 2025 was Muhammad.
The University of Ghent has suspended Nathan Cofnas, the scholar who revealed the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s suspected fraud. According to the scholar, he anticipates being sacked. “The manner in which you publicly presented your role in the allegations concerning the late professor Jason Arday has reinforced concerns among the university’s community that your public interventions seem to develop into targeted campaigns of professional elimination,” the university wrote in the suspension letter sent to Cofnas, according to fellow academic Maarten Boudry.
Additionally, you frequently described the late professor Jason Arday as “mentally challenged” and made other derogatory comments about him, such as calling him a “worthless scholar,” in multiple public interviews. “You have shown that your acts go beyond the acceptable parameters of scholarly debate by defining your involvement as a ‘crusade’ targeted at the systematic personal and professional destruction of peers.” The action follows Ghent University’s announcement that it will take “proper measures” against one of its own scholars for publicly exposing Arday’s significant plagiarism and biographical embellishments.
The university announced in a statement on August 19 that it was “struck” by Arday’s passing and that it was taking “extremely seriously” the postdoctoral researcher’s recent public remarks “about this situation.” At the same time, we want to be transparent about the principles that our university upholds. Ghent University opposes racism, bigotry, and prejudice and promotes respect for human dignity. It emphasized that academic freedom “is not boundless” and “goes hand in hand with responsibility and may be restricted in order to preserve the rights of others.” According to the statement, “Ghent University has chosen to take appropriate action within its authority and the applicable framework.”
Vice-rector Herwig Reynaert and rector Petra De Sutter, a Groen politician who served as Belgium’s deputy prime minister from 2020 to 2025, signed the declaration.
I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.
The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.
In January 2026, De Sutter came under fire after it was discovered by the investigative website Apache that three quotes from her rectoral address, purportedly from prominent intellectuals, had been created using generative artificial intelligence. The researcher in question, Nathan Cofnas, an American biological philosopher who joined Ghent in 2026, was not identified. Ghent University has not said which of Cofnas’ latest remarks set off the procedure or what kind of action would be taken.
Large portions of Arday’s 2015 PhD thesis at Liverpool John Moores University were stolen almost exactly from an older dissertation, often preserving copy-editing faults from the source, according to comprehensive documentation Cofnas posted on his Substack in late July. Paula Zwozdiak-Myers, a professor of education at Brunel University of London, wrote the earlier text in 2009. Along with highlighting concerns about Arday’s claims of amazing physical accomplishments and £5.5 million in charity donations, he also uncovered similar issues in published papers, such as the presenting of interview quotes that seemed to have been taken from the work of other academics.
Arday, who was hailed as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) success story and named as Cambridge’s youngest black professor in 2023 at the age of 37, resigned on August 5, just hours after the University of Cambridge announced it will look into his appointment and career. He mentioned the “unrelenting public attention.” On August 14, at the age of 41, he was discovered dead at his London residence. Since then, Cambridge and other organizations that had hired him, such as Glasgow, have started to examine his appointments. Subsequent reporting and analysis by other outlets and plagiarism specialists classified the commonalities as considerable. An previous Liverpool John Moores inquiry had not upheld formal plagiarism claims, citing similarities to “honest and justifiable error.”
Cofnas has referred to himself as a “race realist” and resigned from a position at Cambridge’s Emmanuel College in 2024 due to controversy surrounding his publications on racial variations in intelligence and the implications for meritocracy and DEI policies. Protests, open letters from left-wing faculty and students, and petitions claiming that his opinions were against the university’s ethical code were all sparked by his employment at Ghent. Over 2,000 signatures were on one. At the time, the institution defended the hire on the grounds of procedural correctness and academic freedom. Critics of Ghent’s most recent action point out that after big sites allegedly withdrew due to legal pressure, Cofnas exposed publicly verifiable issues with Arday’s scholarship.
Universities that had elevated Arday with little apparent investigation of his record, according to these critics, are now concentrating institutional resources on the messenger rather than their own shortcomings. They argue that investigating how a candidate with such documentary problems got to senior positions should be the top focus. The extensive evidence of plagiarism and false allegations in Arday’s record has been largely ignored by progressive Left activists, who instead depict the incident as a racist “witch hunt” or media “lynching” spearheaded by Cofnas and right-leaning sites.
Ibram X wrote in The Emancipator on August 15. Arday was pursued “like a lynch mob” by the “White-owned, mainstream media,” according to Kendi. Two days later, Al Jazeera published an editorial article referring to the death as “institutional murder.” Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, accused the media of “pernicious public humiliation.” Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, and Labor MPs signed an open letter calling for formal monitoring of press decision-making. This is true even though the media didn’t start covering the subject until much later. In 22 days, 249 stories on Arday were counted by the watchdog NewsCord.
Only Jack Grove, a reporter for the Times Higher Education, had investigated it before to that. As part of his investigation into claims of plagiarism in Arday’s PhD and publications, which were supported by a 63-page dossier, he sent Arday three courteous emails with the option to respond. Arday accused him of harassment and denounced him to the Metropolitan Police. Grove was kept in the dark about the Met’s four-month investigation. An officer cautioned him not to get in touch with Arday again when they called him in February 2026 to inform him that the case was concluded since the investigations had impacted Arday’s “mental health.”
Later, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley publicly acknowledged that the force “lost the ball,” saying LBC that contacting the journalist was an error and that the allegation ought to have been rejected right away as not requiring police action. Additionally, Arday had hired the legal firm Carter-Ruck, which suggested in a letter to the Times Higher Education that the questions might be “racially motivated.” As Retraction Watch subsequently revealed, the media finally chose not to publish the results of its investigation.
Ghent University, where @nathancofnas is employed as a researcher, has announced it is investigating the academic for breaking the story about Jason Arday’s plagiarism.
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Alban Gervaise pictured with his wife before he was stabbed to death outside his children’s school in Marseilles.
Mohamed L. is being released in France after just 4 years in detention, the same man who brutally murdered 40-year-old military doctor and father Alban Gervaise in front of his young children in 2022.
“It’s news that we’re trying to prepare for this early release after the murder, barely four years later. It’s news that is really hard to hear, that makes us really go back to our work of mourning for the children and me,” said Christelle Gervaise, the wife of Alban, in an interview with Legend TV.
“It’s true that it’s hard to imagine being able to be in the same city as him. It’s true that it’s quite unbearable for us.”
🇫🇷🔴 Mohamed L. is being released in France after just 4 years in detention, the same man who brutally murdered 40-year-old military doctor and father Alban Gervaise in front of his young children.
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Alban was stabbed to death while waiting outside his children’s Catholic school to pick up his two sons, aged 3 and 7, while his 20-month-old daughter was inside his car, in Marseille in May 2022.
Now, the killer will enjoy partial release during evenings and weekends “at liberty.”
The mother, Christelle, is terrified, and the courts so far have refused to listen to her pleas to block Mohamed L. from being in the same city as her and her children.
“I find that it is an additional concern in our lives that we didn’t really need. And I had to announce to my children this early release. There is necessarily a feeling of injustice. How can he leave prison so early after the murder of their father? And then, yes, there is a great concern on the part of my children. That’s for sure.”
This clip is a condensed version of her full interview, but it showcases the horror a French family is facing, both from the murderer and from the French judicial system.
In the interview, Christelle describes the moment of disbelief and grief when she first learned her husband had been stabbed.
“This is not possible, this is not possible, what is happening,” she told herself.
But it did happen, just as it has happened to countless Europeans year after year. Upon arriving on scene, she is greeted with an empty car and no sign of her children.
“And in fact, I’m going to see a first policeman who is going to accompany me to see the principal this time, who reassures me, my children are safe inside the school, all three of them, but I learn from a policeman who comes that my husband is between life and death and has been transferred to the hospital for resuscitation,” she said.
Alban spent 17 days in a coma, where she tried to tell him over and over again that the children were not harmed and that they needed their father.
“And during those 17 days, I talked to him a lot and he … I hope he heard me. I will never know…. I kept repeating several times to Alban that our daughter is fine, that she is okay, that nothing happened at all. Because I imagine that as a father, for him, it was terrible to be attacked like that with a knife. And then to see that he was going to lose his consciousness. He must have felt it and imagined his daughter in danger.”
“I also tell him that he can’t leave, he can’t leave us. Our children are very small, and I need him, the children need him.”
Then, she describes the moment when she had to tell her young children that their father is gone.
“The death announcement to the children is something that I will never forget and I think it’s the hardest moment of my life, really.”
She was forced to sit her children down and let them know what happened to their father.
“So I told them that I had terrible news to tell them, but that unfortunately, their father had died the night before,” said Christelle.
Now, after the terrible ordeal of losing a father and a husband, the French court system is releasing their father’s killer with zero restrictions on him entering the same city as the family. While there is a direct contact ban, there is no guarantee they do not run into Mohamed L. on the street.
Mohamed L. never even faced a trial. Why? He smoked too much cannabis and had a “psychotic break.” The court experts confirmed this, and just like that, authorities deemed he could not be held criminally responsible. No trial and freedom after just four years.
“The fact that he is not imprisoned like a murderer for 15, 20 years in prison. It’s terrible for us. It’s terrible to know the violence Alban has suffered. And in addition, we must accept that after four years, his murderer is outside on evenings and weekends.”
“I am very worried, first of all, about the risk of recidivism. And then I find that for us, it is also a concern, since this person has the right to come to Marseille.”
She said that the authorities involved in the decision say Mohamed L. “must be able to benefit from it, he must have the necessary care.”
The murder already led the children to be forced from their own school. Now, they may have to leave their own city.
“My children have already had to change schools since it happened. They had to change friends. If, in addition, I tell them that we are leaving the city completely because the murderer and their father have the right to go where they want, I think that it is difficult to understand for them. I can’t help but say to myself, I don’t know where he is, I don’t know what he’s doing,” Christelle said.
She is fighting desperately with her lawyer to ensure this killer is no longer allowed in her city.
“The goal is that, is to have a measure that makes it forbidden for him to go to Marseille.”
“It is something that we carry on our shoulders with the children and that we will carry for a very long time.”
After his arrest, while held at Baumettes prison, he attempted to assault a guard, which contributed to his transfer to a psychiatric unit for difficult patients (UMD). This occurred after the murder and presumably, cannabis was not a factor in this assault.
Shockingly, during the trial, one of the psychiatrists openly said that they cannot predict whether the murderer will “relapse.”
“The question of the risk of a relapse. One of the psychiatrists had answered that it was a bit like predicting a plane crash, that it was impossible to predict. Psychiatrists who take care of this type of patient do not have a crystal ball to be sure that there will be no relapse. And this risk is still to be taken into account in the decisions to allow this person to be in the street today,” she said.
In other words, psychiatric experts admit Mohamed L. may murder again, yet, he is being allowed out on evenings and weekends anyway.
Christelle still has questions about how the man was deemed psychologically unfit to stand trial.
She said that after passersby tackled Mohamed L., he screamed: “In the name of Allah, I gave him 30 stab wounds!”
In response, Christelle said: “I always ask myself the question of something that was more premeditated than what you want to make me believe… We are talking about someone who can kill someone in the street. My husband only lasted a few moments. It’s not a fight, it’s a murder.”
“You think he’s going to go to prison. It doesn’t happen as planned. In relation to the trajectory of the murder of my husband,” she added.
“What is complicated, in fact, with this decision, is that we have no idea of the deadline. We don’t know how long he’s going to stay at the hospital in a closed unit. We don’t know how to answer this question. And despite everything, we can still hear that it is difficult to announce to his children that the murder of their father is not condemned to prison, but will have care for an undetermined duration. I also felt deprived of answers to certain questions,” she said.
Regardless, three children are now missing a loving father, with Alban’s wife describing a happy home life before his murder: “We had a life with Alban who was quite classic and very happy. We met in 2009. I was a medical student and he was an intern. We got engaged and then we got married. We had three children. We moved several times because Alban was a military doctor. So we met in Lorraine. Then we went to Paris for his work. Then to Marseille in July 2021. And we really had a very happy family life because Alban was a very loving husband, very loved and a father really present for his children and very invested in his role as a father.”
Two British men who took part in protests outside an Essex asylum hotel have received longer prison sentences than the migrant whose sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl triggered the demonstrations.
The protests erupted after Ethiopian asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu, who had arrived in the UK by small boat only days earlier and was housed at the hotel, sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman in the town, Epping, Essex, northeast of London.
Kebatu attempted to kiss the schoolgirl, placed his hand on her thigh, and later assaulted an adult woman who intervened. He was found guilty of multiple sexual offences and jailed for 12 months on September 23, 2025, before eventually being deported to Ethiopia. That was the maximum term a magistrates’ court can impose for a single either-way offence.
The case caused a huge uproar in the local community, amid growing public anger over a string of sexual offences and other incidents involving asylum seekers housed in such accommodation in the UK.
Charlie Land, 24, from Hatfield, was sentenced to two years and eight months for violent disorder and criminal damage. Jonathan Glover, 48, from Waltham Abbey, received two years and six months for violent disorder. Both were convicted after a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court on June 1, 2026, and sentenced on August 19.
Footage showed Land repeatedly attacking police vehicles, including climbing onto one and kicking the windscreen while masked.
Glover was seen shouting at officers and blocking police carriers during the disorder on July 17, 2025, outside the Bell Hotel in Epping.
A third man convicted at the same trial, Keith Silk, 34, from Loughton, is due to be sentenced on November 10.
The sentences handed to Land and Glover greatly exceed Kebatu’s term.
They are among 10 people jailed over the Epping disorder, with combined custodial sentences already exceeding 17 years. Essex Police has said 11 men were convicted in all.
Earlier defendants also received terms longer than the original offender’s.
The disparity has fuelled renewed accusations of two-tier justice, a concept that refers to the widespread perception that the UK legal system applies different standards depending on the identity or politics of those involved. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage used the term when the first Epping sentences were passed in October 2025.
A Catholic bishop in Austria has claimed that the pro-life movement in the European nation is being “co-opted or infiltrated” by the “far-right.”
Bishop Hermann Glettler of the Diocese of Innsbruck, Austria, has expressed his concern over the ties of the pro-life movement to right-wing political groups. In an interview with Austrian magazine Die Furche, the bishop said he finds it “alarming that organizations committed to protecting life in its entirety are being co-opted or infiltrated by parties ranging from right-wing populist to far-right.”
Glettler’s comments follow the publication of an article in the left-wing newspaper Der Standard in early August. According to the report, Frederik Koller, chairman of the Austrian pro-life group “Youth for Life,” is a city council member with the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in Altomünster, Upper Bavaria. The article also notes that the press spokesperson of Youth for Life, Natalie Walch, attended the summer academy of the right-wing Antaios Publishing House in Schnellroda, Saxony-Anhalt, together with her husband Fabian Walch, who is a politician for the conservative Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Austria.
Despite his concern about pro-lifers’ ties to right-wing parties, Glettler maintained that the protection of unborn life must not become “an ideological or partisan issue” and should be “neither right-wing nor left-wing.”
He said that he believes the majority of Youth for Life members do not have “a right-wing populist background” and said that he is “in dialogue with the organization’s board.”
“Being for or against abortion is interpreted as political bait,” Glettler noted. He said that he also opposes the fight for a “right to abortion” by the left.
“Protecting life is neither right-wing nor left-wing. It must not become a vehicle for ideological polarization or, worse still, a political weapon against those who think differently,” he stated.
He said the issue needs to be de-politicized and de-ideologized, and that the focus should be on families, women, children, and those who need support in difficult situations.
While calling for non-partisanship on abortion, Glettler has aligned himself with left-wing political causes in the Church, previously calling for “blessings” for same-sex couples and condoning an active homosexual lifestyle. Additionally, the bishop said in 2020 that the Church’s doctrine that women cannot be ordained as priests is an “inequality” that is “difficult to justify.” In 2019, he hosted seminars for divorced and “remarried” couples living in adultery in which he allowed the couples to receive Holy Communion and a “celebration of reconciliation and of blessing.”
The bishop of Innsbruck has also made international headlines for hanging inappropriate modern “art projects” as Lenten cloths in churches. In 2022, he hung the banner of a nude transgender activist over the main altar at the historic university church of Saint John Nepomuk in Innsbruck. In 2023, he decorated the “Innsbrucker Spitalskirche” (i.e. hospital church) with a Lenten cloth that showed a pig heart half covered by a condom.
“If you have sex with someone who does not want to, this is called ‘rape'”
The Home Office has published a guide for illegal migrants on how ‘not to rape women’ in Britain | HOME OFFICE. gbnews
My favorite part of the poster is the lettering at the bottom, “If you break these rules, you could be arrested by the police and sent to prison. This could affect your asylum claim”. Could. Not absolutely will. Just maybe could.
If you rape a kid or mutilate a little girl’s body, it ‘could’ affect their ability to freeload on the UK taxpayer.
I’m pretty sure they’re going to pull this one and reverse the skin colors on the couple. But I like how the poster assumes the migrants don’t understand the concept of rape. I’m pretty sure they understand the concept, they simply do it because it’s allowed in their culture and religion which in their minds takes priority over UK laws.
But at least this poster emphasizes that raping someone “will affect your asylum claim.” I’m not clear why raping kids only “could”, but raping an adult woman “will”, but it’s probably best not to inquire too closely into why this legal system does anything.
Now, it seems simpler to me to just give migrants a little test at the border. “Is rape okay?” “Is raping kids okay?” Great, you failed this one so we’re going to send you to a leper colony. Best of luck.”
The former Archbishop of Cantebury has been slammed by a Christian activist for his “divisive” attack on Nigel Farage.
Speaking to GB News, Fleur Elizabeth Meston declared Rowan Williams’s claim that the Reform UK leader is “using Christianity to channel anti-Muslim feeling” is “entirely false”.
In a new interview Mr Williams claimed there is an “inevitable scepticism these days about some claims to religious conviction”.
He told the New Humanist magazine: “I suspect really that (Nigel) Farage and others want to channel anti-Muslim feeling, and it helps to have ‘we’re a Christian society’ to fling back. It gives a sort of ballast.
“Ironically, for someone like Nigel Farage, it’s about trying to find a presentational strategy that allows him to be taken seriously outside England. He’s often not here, after all.”
Reacting to the remarks, Ms Meston told GB News that the former Archbishop’s attack is “probably more to do with his own left wing views than anything based on reality”.
She said: “I think it is entirely false, and the fact that Farage has entrusted Zia Yusuf, a Muslim, in a prominent position within the Reform party just immediately puts to that any claims of Reform or Farage having a anti-Muslim agenda.
“I think it’s mischief making, it’s divisive and he just needs to stop repeating these claims, it’s wrong.”
The Christian activist argued that Mr Williams has “always been a friend to the religion of Islam”.
She said: “He obviously has historically been amore liberal Archbishop of Canterbury, and has definitely had close ties with the Muslim community.
“He came under a lot of scrutiny with his comments saying that Sharia Law was something that we couldn’t resist and shouldn’t resist in the UK within Muslim communities.”
Ms Meston continued: :And he’s always sort of been a friend to the religion of Islam, but if I were him, I would probably be approaching making statements these days with a bit of humility after how his tenure as the Archbishop ended.
“If he follows the Bible, then it would say to take the plank out of your own eye rather than the stacking someone else’s, and I think that’s probably what he needs to start doing before criticising Farage for standing up for a Christian nation that Rowan Williams did formally represent.”
Ms Meston suggested that Mr Williams should have “approached Nigel Farage as a prominent Christian figure” rather than criticise his character.
She told GB News: “If Rowan Williams doesn’t like the character, I know he mentioned Tommy Robinson as well as Farage because of their different beliefs, I wonder, has he ever tried to reach out to them as a prominent Christian in the UK and showed them the Gospel?
“I just think that the judgement is not his to give. I think it is unwise to be making public statements that you don’t believe that someone else is really a Christian.
“I mean, who are any of us to say what someone else believes truly in their hearts? I think that’s where he’s going wrong.”
In February, Reform UK pledged to restore Britain’s Christian heritage if the party won the next General Election.
The party’s home affairs spokesman, Mr Yusuf, vowed to end the practice of converting churches into mosques after being urged to do so by “anxious” Britons, he told The Times.
He also said large numbers of migrants flooding into Britain from “low-trust societies” had led to an erosion of Christian values across the country.
Jason Arday Screenshot von Channel 4 News’ Ways to Change the World Podcast, 2023.
The passing of Jason Arday is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy of his own making.
This is true in both a literal sense, in that his death was apparently a suicide, and figuratively, in that the events that drove the former Cambridge sociology professor to suicide were fabulism and fabrication in the service of a career of academic stardom.
He made a Faustian bargain with the truth to achieve academic stardom — one that was so absurd that anyone who bothered to fact-check it would discover it to be a farrago of lies — and could not bring himself to face the consequences of his prevarications when they were brought to light, quite belatedly.
Now that he has killed himself because someone finally reported on his misdoings, some in the United Kingdom want to change the law so that you can’t tell the truth about someone who isn’t telling the truth, or who is doing other things they shouldn’t be doing.
In other words, your free speech should end where a famous person’s feelings might theoretically begin.
A petition on Change.org to enact something called “Arday’s Law” — which would limit the amount of coverage the media could devote to a person over a certain period of time in the United Kingdom — had garnered over 4,300 verified signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.
This comes amid a similar petition from the Good Law Project, which calls for an inquiry into Arday’s death, albeit without proposing concrete limits on speech. However, it does call his death “the direct, foreseeable and foreseen result of press harassment,” which leads to obvious conclusions about what they might want that inquiry to recommend. That petition had 121,649 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.
For those of you who didn’t keep up on the Arday story, a quick TL;DR: When he was hired in 2023 at 37, Arday was the youngest black professor in the history of the University of Cambridge. This was in spite of the fact that his work was riddled with plagiarism and much of his strange backstory (he said he was nonverbal until the age of 11 and couldn’t read until he was 18; he said he was an elite ultra-marathoner who once ran 600 miles in six days for charity) could easily have been debunked with basic fact-checking.
However, Arday became an academic superstar, appearing on TV both in the U.K. and globally. He was about to have a memoir titled “Great and Unfortunate Things” published when people started noticing all of this publicly.
It turns out that most of this had been noticed privately years before, and had been kept private by Arday’s minatory legal team. Even after virtually unassailable evidence came out that he was a plagiarist and most of his storytelling was false, Cambridge stood by him, calling it a “vile smear campaign to undermine his credibility.”
This didn’t do the job, since the corpus of evidence of academic malpractice and industrial-strength duplicity was too much to ignore, and Arday resigned as the university announced an investigation into his work. On Friday, he was found unresponsive at his apartment in London and pronounced dead of an apparent suicide.
This is all quite tragic, but the thing is that this would have been a one-day story (or not a story at all) if either Cambridge or Arday had dropped the act much earlier. Instead, it snowballed, and the media had to keep covering it because both the university and the professor continued to aggressively deny the allegations and attack those who pursued them.
According to the people who started the petition, the fault lay with those who told the truth about Arday and Cambridge and continued telling the truth while they continued very loudly lying.
From the petition:
249 articles were published across 15 major British news outlets in the period between 24th July and the date of his death (14th August). Worryingly, 188 articles were written in the 9 day period between his resignation and his death (5th-14th August). These articles scrutinised every area of Professor Arday’s life.
The relentless flood of media articles casting unverified allegations on Professor Arday illustrates a pressing issue: the devastating impact of excessive media scrutiny on individuals. In today’s hyper-connected world, the media’s ability to shape narratives can have profound consequences on personal and professional lives—often before full stories emerge. Professor Arday’s case stands as a stark reminder of the urgent need for responsible journalism that respects privacy and prioritizes fact-based reporting.
This petition calls for legislative action to impose limitations on the number of news articles published about a single individual within a defined time frame. By doing so, we can ensure that individuals are not subjected to undue public pressure and potential mental anguish caused by excessive media coverage. The government must hold media outlets accountable for their role in amplifying potentially damaging narratives.
So, to deal with this seriatim: There were only 249 articles between July 24 and Aug. 14 because no one was willing to tell the truth. In fact, this could have been over and done with a long time ago had Arday’s lawyers not hounded publications and academics that looked into his work and record.
The reason “every area of Professor Arday’s life” was scrutinized was because that’s how he came to prominence — as an ultra-marathoning professor who couldn’t read until he was 18. If you can’t report critically on those preposterous claims after they’ve been reported on positively with all sincerity and credulity, what can you report on?
“In today’s hyper-connected world, the media’s ability to shape narratives can have profound consequences on personal and professional lives,” the media says. Yeah, and nobody was complaining when this narrative-shaping was making Arday a prominent and wealthy man.
Also, the idea that this reportage serves “as a stark reminder of the urgent need for responsible journalism” is laughable when you consider that, when responsible journalism was set to expose this in a lower-profile manner, Arday sicced his solicitors on the people who were going to responsibly report that he was a fraud.
As for “legislative action to impose limitations on the number of news articles published about a single individual within a defined time frame” — who decides what that is? The answer presents itself: the same British censors who put people in jail over memes. Arday’s death is being used cynically to limit people who say impolitic things, like the fact that Arday was a totemic DEI hire or that academia is willing to protect its own at all costs, including that of the truth.
Indeed, later in the petition, the authors effectively give the game away by saying that elected officials “must hold media outlets accountable for their role in amplifying potentially damaging narratives” and that “such a regulation would not only serve to protect individuals from undue stress but also encourage more balanced reporting.” (Gosh, wonder what that might include?)
This was always going to be, sadly, the legacy of Jason Arday, one which turned him from a DEI mascot into a left-wing martyr.
The BBC, far from providing critical coverage of Cambridge’s role in enabling Arday’s dissimulations, ran this piece earlier in the week: “Cambridge chancellor criticizes ‘racist feeding frenzy’ around Jason Arday.” In addition to quoting the Cambridge chancellor, they also gave lots of play to Labour MP Diane Abbott, who spoke at a vigil for Arday and criticized the “vicious and bitter media campaign” against him, saying that it was by “people who didn’t believe a black man should be a Cambridge professor.”
“This was a campaign against all of us,” she said.
No. It was honest reporting on a man who lied and plagiarized his way into a prominent role in British society and then demanded British society shut up about it. Now, after his death, people like Abbott and those behind “Arday’s Law” are picking up the torch and trying to ensure that this kind of censorship becomes law.
A male prison inmate who claims to be female is suing the Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) in an attempt to overturn a state ban on the use of taxpayer funding for transgender procedures for convicted criminals. The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken up his case.
Wayne Allison, who now goes by the name “Astrid,” is serving a 27-year prison sentence for raping his 11-year-old sister multiple times in 2013. He was charged with five counts of child molestation and one count of incest.
According to an affidavit provided to Reduxx, which has extensively covered this and similar cases, Allison assaulted the girl repeatedly between July and November 2013.
Indiana law currently prohibits the use of state or federal funds to facilitate what the statute defines as “sexual reassignment surgery” for incarcerated offenders, according to Reduxx.
Allison’s April 2024 legal complaint – which uses female pronouns to describe him – claims that transgender surgery is required to alleviate his alleged mental suffering.
“Astrid Allison, also known as Wayne Allison, is an adult transgender female prisoner confined in a male institution (New Castle Correctional Facility) within the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC). She is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has been receiving female hormones and a hormone to suppress her testosterone for more than three years,” the complaint noted. “Although the hormones have helped to lessen the debilitating symptoms of gender dysphoria, surgery is necessary to relieve her continuing symptoms of serious depression and anxiety.”
His legal filing argued that the mutilating surgery is a “medical necessity” and that denying it violates the Eighth Amendment, which protects inmates from “cruel and unusual punishment.”
“Although plaintiff’s birth-assigned sex is male, she has identified as female since she was 10,” the complaint further stated. “The misalignment of her gender identity with her birth-assigned sex has caused her, and continues to cause her, enormous depression, anxiety, and distress.”
“With the hormones she has developed breasts and her body fat has changed to contour her body like a birth-assigned female,” the legal filing noted. “She has attempted to live as a female to the greatest extent possible as she is in a male prison. She wears a bra and women’s underwear. She wears lipstick that she is able to purchase on commissary. She wears makeup … Every morning she gets up and wants to die because of her gender dysphoria.”
Last year, the ACLU moved to consolidate Allison’s “sex discrimination” case with that of another “transgender” convicted pedophile housed in the same prison, Cory Wallace, who brutally abused his four-month-old-son, Jensen, resulting in his death.
Wallace, who is serving a 72-year sentence, has been working with the ACLU since 2023 to challenge the IDOC’s ban on taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries.
