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arday was clearly an academic fraud and a ridiculous fabulist, but this was the press hounding a man to death to please nazi freaks on twitter who clapped like seals the whole way. it's all gross and bad

the plot beats of his rise is something straight out of a bbc comedy series, esp his academic station. to act like there was never going to be any schadenfreude (he was at cambridge!!!) or coverage is absurd. but the constant, repeated, intensity of coverage—see also claudine gay—was just racism

the editor of the telegraph especially— should, frankly, blow his brains out. this was a lynching of a man who didn't deserve death or anything close to it. they knew exactly what they were doing unlike a low rent fraud who just backs themselves into a pile of white lies

Shouldn't we wait for the cause of death, before concluding that it was a "lynching"?

I've been made painfully aware over the last fortnight how the police describe suicide victims. It's like this.

I presume that in the UK, as in most countries, it is the coroner that has the final say in whether it is a suicide, so police probably aren't even allowed to say as much, even if it is very apparent at the scene.

Yeah, with the effective "code" for obvious suicide being as above. The only alternative would be sudden and unexpected natural causes but I'd find that unlikely.

"The only alternative..." An accidental drug-overdose would - for a generalised 40 year old male - statistically be roughly as likely as suicide. For an extreme endurance-athlete, the risk of heart-disease is heightened. I don't think we are ready to conclude anything.