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Twitter: Wild West and Human Rights

Two recent events on Twitter both highlighted some important questions about Twitter as a public square and how we respond as a society to it. The first one is Trump being banned from Twitter for what Twitter called a “risk”…

Crawley Town 3 Leeds United 0. Pathetic.

On tweet summed it up. Pathetic. There is nothing much pretty about these early giant killing matches. Brutal tactics versus free flowing football. Bielsa set up Leeds with a mix of first team and super subs. What was evident was…

Insurrection

Watching Vice President Mitch McConnell last night on BBC News eloquently portray how he could not stand by trump in his stubborn campaign to deny the result of the us election, instead calling it a fraud that had to be…

West Brom 0 Leeds 5. Normal service resumed

ezgjan alioski

Going into a second game in three days with three first choice defenders missing was always going to nerve wracking. Especially after the poor performance against Burnley. Two players a yellow card away from suspension also had an effect. How…

Brexit and the return of sovereignty

The Brexit deal is the end of the beginning by Robert Tombs on Unherd Boris has succeeded where all others failed by Matthew Goodwin on Unherd The outcome of the Brexit deal is being interpreted according to where your loyalties…

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. It feels strange, restrictive and humbling to be made housebound by nature gone bad in this apparently modern world devoid of big ideas of how to overcome it. Yet somehow we look to technology to stay in…

The Silence: Don Delillo

I have not read a novel by Don Delillo before but I was more than aware of his fame to be attracted by this apparent zeitgeist novella about what would happen if, god forbid, the wifi went down. There are…