Carolen on Nostr: "I do not have sympathy for Jason Arday, because I believe he reached his decision ...

"I do not have sympathy for Jason Arday, because I believe he reached his decision rationally. He was not a ‘victim’ of either the press or Cambridge University. No institution should have a ‘duty of care’ for any adult, not least a forty something. Arday should be rescued from this condescension and understood on his own terms. He killed himself because he knew that once he had been exposed as a fabulist there was no way of going back to the old life that he enjoyed, as a social mobility success story in the face of racial oppression enjoying a coveted academic position in a prestigious University.

The decision to kill himself was probably made final when Cambridge eventually relented and announced that they would investigate his academic work. Not only was the jig up, but suicide provided an opportunity to recover some of the reputational damage. He no doubt believed that his act would make it more difficult for journalists to continue pressuring Cambridge over their hiring decisions and that it would become politically incorrect to talk about his fabulism. That by ‘breaking cover’ in this way he would encourage many ‘neutral voices’ to emerge from the woodwork and start saying how dreadful it was that Arday had been exposed and that now it was time to reflect (and maybe finally implement Leveson). It was one final act of politically motivated narcissism in a life defined by it."

https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/if-you-live-by-the-sword