His woke admirers wanted to believe Arday so much that if he'd claimed to be Shergar they'd have given him a lump of sugar: JAN MOIR

The rise and rise and rise and epic fall of Cambridge professor Jason Arday could only happen in idiotic, idealistic, soppy, patronising, doomed Great Britain. The rise and rise and rise and epic fall of Cambridge professor Jason Arday could only happen in idiotic, idealistic, soppy, patronising, doomed Great Britain.