I know I touched upon trolls a few days ago, but it seems to me that they are becoming more and more virulent. I was just watching the morning news, when it struck me that we are all being trolled. On the internet, a troll is someone who posts controversial or inflammatory content into a forum to get attention or stir up trouble. They deliberately wind people up for their own amusement. I see it all the time, particularly with respect to ‘debates’ like the shape of the earth, where people seem to want to argue black is white that the world is flat, just to perpetuate the debate. Their arguments are getting sillier and sillier, more and more absurd, merely to stir people up and get them to respond.

However, it seems to me that we are all now being trolled on a far broader scale. This morning note how Elon Musk has tweeted all kinds of rancid, baseless bullshit about Labour and Starmer etc; we see guys like Trump and Farage doing something similar. Isn’t it obvious that they’re just trying to wind people up and get attention. They want people to react simply to pull the focus onto them. In the press conference the PM gave earlier about the plans for the NHS, half of the questions from the media concerned Musk, simply because he had posted an idiotic tweet.

Thus people like Musk, Farage and Trump are effectively nothing more than internet trolls, and would just be ignored if we collectively had any sense. The more we fail to do so, the more we feed their craving to be the centre of attention, and the worse and more inane their spewings become.