{"id":371125,"date":"2026-08-18T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/thousands-attend-jason-arday-vigil-in-london\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:00:44","slug":"thousands-attend-jason-arday-vigil-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/thousands-attend-jason-arday-vigil-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend Jason Arday vigil in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sMk7KlrI0qE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands attend Jason Arday vigil in London\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMk7KlrI0qE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to remember and pay tribute to Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor who died on Friday.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Stand Up to Racism, which organised the vigil, estimated that 30,000 mourners had gathered in the square to listen to emotional speeches from MPs, friends and campaigners on Arday\u2019s life and legacy and join in a minute\u2019s silence. Many were dressed in black and held flowers, which they were asked to leave beneath Nelson\u2019s column. People also carried placards reading \u201crest in power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Arday, 41, was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to his home in south London on Friday. He had resigned from his role as professor of sociology of education at Cambridge, after widespread scrutiny over accusations of plagiarism, which he rejected, and inconsistencies in statements about his career and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Arday was initially accused of plagiarising another academic\u2019s work for his PhD thesis. But he denied the accusations, and an investigation by Liverpool John Moores University earlier this year upheld its decision to award him a PhD.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Woolley, who was a mentor to Arday at Cambridge, said that when he had seen Arday shortly before his death, \u201cwe knew Jason was suffering\u201d and feeling \u201chounded\u201d, and he had hugged him. \u201cWe told him he was loved,\u201d Woolley said.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering Arday as a \u201cwonderful man [who] never stole a bag of crisps\u201d, he urged that there \u201cbe some reckoning\u201d after Arday\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>But he added that it would be important to reflect on the role of \u201cracism, institutional responsibility, accountability and the treatment of black families and black men\u201d in Arday\u2019s death, as well as why the \u201cduty of care\u201d to an autistic man known to be vulnerable had failed, potentially through a public inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>#jasonarday #professorjasonarday #uk #cambridgeuniversity #cambridge #london<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to remember and pay tribute to Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor who died on Friday. 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