This attack on the press, which says that 'some of our community have blood on their hands' singles out a piece written by a black Guardian journalist. The author, Lester Holloway, is head of Communications and Public Relations at Homerton College Cambridge. This is not mentioned in the piece which states that he writes 'in a personal capacity' homerton.cam.ac.uk/people/le… Homerton College has a close institutional relationship with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, which employed Jason Arday. Arday's death was a tragedy. This response looks like a call for vengeance rather than reflection. It is genuinely astonishing to see this from someone employed in a senior professional services role.

"There is, though, another lesson to be drawn here, about the difficulty of delivering truth to a person who is radically self-deceived. Sometimes it is just easier to become half-deluded too. Institutions nominally dedicated to knowledge — universities, media organisations, publishing houses — are full of people captivated by second-hand fantasies, excluding coherent thought. We need to help them face reality."