The thing that Nigel and (prime) Donald have/had mastery of is knowing where to stop. The shock jock art of knowing how to be outrageous, but not too outrageous. The right wing media space is littere… (View Post)

Presumably a graph of troll quality over time would work as a reasonable proxy for the rest of the Russian war economy. (View Post)

Nobody sensible looks to political leaders to give their life deeper meaning. That's not what they're there for. It's when people become fans of politicians, when they treat ultimately… (View Post)

The consequent fate of the King, for a start. (One of the other things is fandango is showing us is the dangers of using social media to build up a factual picture of something one doesn't know … (View Post)

Better government is always to be desired, but does it solve the world's Musk problem? Unfortunately, I rather doubt it. The old adage about a lie spreading worldwide before the truth has got it… (View Post)