The principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has insisted he was telling the “truth” when he said that Jason Arday was murdered – or in his words, was the victim of a “lynching” and a “public assassination” by people who had decided that “Jason doesn’t deserve to be alive.”

The reaction of Woolley’s fellow activists to our initial post was, inevitably, to say that questioning all these untruths was racist

The reaction of Woolley’s fellow activists to our initial post was, inevitably, to say that questioning all these untruths was racist

In a LinkedIn post Simon Woolley, Lord Woolley, has doubled down on his factually false and racially inflammatory claims, saying he was “speak[ing] truth to power” and “nor would I change my actions. Not for a moment.” In doing this, he appears to have joined the ranks of what the Atlantic magazine calls the “Jason Arday truthers,” dedicated peddlers of untruths about the late academic – an unusual, probably unprecedented position for a senior figure at one of the world’s top universities.

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