From the Daily Mail (so be careful, that’s a link to the Daily Mail website):

The Tories were today forced to deny that a video clip purporting to show a long-haired party-goer at a 1988 outdoor rave was the party leader David Cameron.

Read that again. Now, that David Cameron is a video clip is a serious allegation.

And other six-word–long stories.

Richard “Richard H Cooper” Cooper calls Breaking Bad “a post-traumatic masterpiece”. Now, some “major spoilers” are contained there – well, not many I much remembered or even remember again now, but the warning’s in place – well, clearly I was in a fugue state for most of my viewing, but that didn’t impair my enjoyment. Hey, what’s so bad about downforce, anyway? (Do you see what I did there?)

Cooper’s “Finger-Steepling and Sharks”, there, is a whole thing of that kind of stuff. It might all be interesting. They say blogging is dead. Now, can he tell us why they don’t make marmalade with proper sugar any longer? And can he make us some barrels? (Do you see what I did there?)

Chilling – and even more pertinent now than when it was published (a few weeks ago).

[...] The author correctly identifies the willingness on the part of the last Labour government to implicitly play the race card, as a major factor in the rise of the BNP. [...] Labour had triangulated on immigration – and so, of course, did many Tories. Indeed, the willingness of mainstream politicians to subsume all incomers to the catch-all “asylum seekers”, instead of attempting to first understand – and then explain – the complex interplay of history and economics that had led to mass immigration, left the stage free for anyone prepared to argue simply for its cessation, and even for repatriation.

Any response to these twits, from more sensible politicians, does seem likely to make the twits’ views gradually appear less extreme. But screwing one’s eyes up and ignoring them is surely no better. Stuff is difficult.