I'm trying to block out the suppurating vileness of Twitter

'Great God, Twitter is an awful place!' I tweeted the other day. Hypocritically. After all, if I really hate it so much, what the hell am I still doing there? It's quite possible for someone in my game to survive without Twitter. Look at Rod Liddle.

The reason Rod doesn't do Twitter is that he recognises it as a suppurating bubo of intense Satanic vileness in which bullies exult, idiots are hailed as sages and all decency, wisdom, insight, wit or modesty is drowned in a mucus flood of idiot received ideas, poisonous cant, vicious insults and sixth-form common-room glibness.

He's right, of course, as I'm reminded almost daily by missives like this…

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