Suicide is highly contagious. It triggers copycat deaths across both time & space. Especially if reported sensationally.
Please share these guidelines from the Samaritans on how to responsibly report on suicide. They apply also to social media.
Young people are particularly vulnerable.
RIP Jason Arday. You were failed by so many including the media. Please don’t let this awful awful tragedy lead to more tragedy.
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The guy who delightedly claimed to bring down Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas, had his own work demolished as “unintelligible, wrong-headed …nonsensical” by nine more senior academics two years before Cambridge appointed him. He has argued that universities like Cambridge would have virtually zero Black professors if appointed solely on merit (which, funnily enough, is more or less what the supposedly ‘woke” Cambridge in fact has). He argues that Black people can only excel in sport and entertainment. A strangely under-covered aspect of this sad story prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
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Dear FIFA TV Director,
There's not a single football fan in the world who'd rather see Donald Trump sitting on his fat arse than the actual World Cup Final
Ta
Larry x