https://freerepublic.com/tag/eveclaxton/ en-us Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:30:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4392498/posts Earlier this year, shortly after it was announced that the publisher Simon & Schuster had bought the rights to Jason Arday’s memoir, the then professor of sociology of education at Cambridge University gave an interview to The Bookseller. “I always wanted to be a person who flew close to the sun,” Arday mused. “But sometimes I wonder: did I fly too close?” On the evidence of his book – due to be published in the UK on August 27 – and all that has emerged about Arday in recent weeks, the answer is probably yes. Titled Great and Unfortunate Things,... The Telegraph https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4392498/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:30:16 GMT