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Does social media stifle debate?

Posted on by Phill Sacre

Has it really come to this in our society? Has it really come to the point where we seem utterly unable to believe that someone can hold another opinion on a difficult issue without believing that they are a moral monster? It started out two or three years ago with same-sex marriage. The media loved…

Is Twitter making us dumb and angry?

Posted on by Phill Sacre

Every few years, it seems to be an unwritten rule that the newspapers have to have a scare about dumbing down, e.g. GCSE results now don’t mean as much as they used to back in the good old days. Now, whether they have a point or not I can’t say, but it does seem to…