I have to confess that, like many other commentators, I thought that the coming of the Labour government would mean – at least for a bit – that things might get a little quieter, at least on social media. I was quite looking forward to that. But it all seems to have got even madder.
This century has brought many wonders, but the sight of Carol Vorderman criticising somebody else for being overpaid for their TV work – that’s surely the most stupefying of them all
When Twitter first materialised in the late noughties under a Labour government, it was – honestly, straight up – a quite sociable place. People pottered about on it, in an innocently affable manner, despite the pressing issues of the day. Jokes in incredibly bad taste were made, and people either laughed at them or ignored them, because it was still understood in 2009 that not everything had to be taken literally.
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