Yes, the recent Jason Arday scandal should be a wake-up call to the left, as Jason Okundaye suggests (The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left, 6 August), but it should also be a wake-up call to anyone who cares about university systems and protocols around appointment and promotion.
What I have seen at UK universities suggests that Arday was not simply an individual who slipped through the net, but that university systems often fail to detect or challenge exaggerated claims. If anything, those with greater institutional privilege are more likely to get away with exaggerations, embellishments and even falsehoods on their CVs and promotion applications.
