It’s been confounding me for months: why does social media get us into such a frenzy? There are so many reasons, and I’ve figured out the more obvious ones: baiters; fake information; people who get off on horror or mischief; serial shamers (and their necessary dance-partners, serial reactors) and just plain trolls. But the genuinely caring […]

A slinging-match breaks out on social media – Venezuela, up until lately the most viable version of the socialist dream, has lost its entire economy and capitalists are saying: “I told you so.” Socialists are calling them names and it’s all going wrong. The following is a cobbled-together version of my side of a 30-tweet […]