Social media is the biggest con-trick played on the human race since organised religion. It's gone beyond just writing on walls and worshipping cats, now it's like a proper highly organised mega-cult. It purports to inform us about stuff whilst feeding us disinformation. It involves massive peer pressure about how we...

It seems I offended a particular political tribe on a social media platform the other day. Their response reminded me of a piece I wrote quite a while ago. Welcome to the strange death of the asterisk... It used to be that the asterisk served as a modest shield, a polite veil over language deemed too offensive for...