Why people cared about Jason Arday

The difference between scrutiny and smear is not defined by political affiliation

The death of Jason Arday is – whatever you think of him, what he did or did not do, whatever your politics are, and most of all for his family, his child – a tragedy. There have been reams already written not a week after he died defending him or explaining why the tragedy was...

Why people cared about Jason Arday

Don’t badmouth the dead, said Chilon of Sparta. Over time, the phrase became a positive injunction to say nothing of…

On Jason Arday: many things can be possible at the same time

The man I met was kind and engaging. While the questions we asked of him were justified, that doesn’t make his death any less tragic, writes Tom Williams

Why people cared about Jason Arday - Politics, Policy, Political Views

Don’t badmouth the dead, said Chilon of Sparta. Over time, the phrase became a positive injunction to say nothing of the dead unless it was good, de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Christopher Hitchens had a different rule: say anything you like, so long as it was something you’d have been willing to say while they were alive. For him, death did not work as absolution, and the lives of figures public enough to merit scrutiny while they lived merited the…