My readers have revealed many surprising things to me over the years, like that I am a radical Marxist who wants to destroy Western civilisation and that I am an imperialist hell-bent on oppressing the African child. But this weekend one reader taught me something entirely new.

Well, I say “reader”, but you know what I mean. Also, before I go on, I should admit that I’m not even sure I was dealing with a real person: the AI-generated profile picture suggested that my accuser was nothing more than one of the digital ghosts now being pumped onto social media by the sociopathic oligarch class to entrench political and social divisions and to radicalise young white men...

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