X, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and all the rest.

I get my news from newspapers, like a grown-up. (Ducks the fusillade of brickbats.) I get prices from Bloomberg, but I've turned down the update frequency to what I think of as "very sedate." I get analysis from the LRB, NLR, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, and so on, and I'm still twitchy. What it must be like to be a 17 year old today I simply cannot imagine. I know a lot of people who don't let their kids near tablets or screens, and these are people who know what they're doing.

So while I don't think social media is a full explanation for the world's lurch towards anti-knowledge right-wing populism, I don't think it's healthy for anyone, really. Even TPF: I'm much more irritated with Dyche than I would be if I was just watching the game and chatting about it with mates. Especially on non-game days - did we used to think about Everton every day? I'm not sure we did, in good times or bad.