Good luck for both of you, Max. Irrational ideas ARE harder to shake than rational ones! - but knowing they're irrational is a good start. As I found when I aired a personal issue last year, thi… (View Post)

Great, judicious and fair, piece. Part of the problem is that people ask for enquiries sometimes out of genuine concern to find out what went wrong and avoid a repeat, but also sometimes just to make… (View Post)

Yes, well, generalisation about generalisations is also risky :). But two points: 1. Generalising about accidents of birth (being black or Paraguayan or whatever) is several degrees stupider than gen… (View Post)

That's a great piece, which corresponds to my experience. It's equally a mistake to say most Muslims are terrorist sympathisers or that most Muslims are saintly - broadly speaking, they… (View Post)

There is, I think, an element of enabling in Twitter hatred which makes some deranged people and extremists feel justified in turning to violence. But, a separate point, as a politician social media … (View Post)