Look at this. A blog post with actual comments. That takes me back…
Today’s Engaged Reading Digest - chat apps in protests, how the internet is changing our language and influencer reverse psychology.
This is why I carry on blogging.
”It’s almost seven years, now, since David Cameron decided that an EU referendum would reunite the Conservative party. I wouldn’t want to speak too soon, but just at the moment, it doesn’t seem to be going entirely to plan.”
Interesting, but not transformative. It’ll help with the mental heath issues around social media. Be interesting to see what the lack of social proof does to reach, though.
The Next Web, Ivan Mehta: Facebook is testing removing like count from its post
Unintended consequence of the day: Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand
Working in the M&S Café while my wife and daughter do some final school shopping. I am getting the evil eye from pensioners, whose regular spot I have probably accidentally occupied.
The slow erosion of the democratic norm
Rachel Sylvester makes an important point in The Times:
Democracy is about persuasion rather than obliteration and there are rules underpinning political conflict that don’t apply in military combat. The prime minister seems to have forgotten that, far from being the nation’s commander-in-chief, he is only “first among equals” in the cabinet and depends for his power on the House of Commons. The scorched-earth approach being pursued by No 10 will make it almost impossible to unite the Tory party, let alone the country, when the skirmishes are over.
There is an autocratic streak in a lot of current politics that should concern anyone who values democracy.