Bile Eye

We used to take living in a free society for granted. We would boast complacently about the British love of liberty, often basking shamelessly in the reflected glory of the wartime generation who sacrificed so much to keep this country free from tyranny. Then came the coronavirus... Covid-19 has done what the Nazis failed to do: it has cowed the UK into meek submission and caused its fearful citizens to embrace authoritarianism. While we're on the subject of Nazis, Hitler was very much an 'ends justify the means' kind of guy. Bizarrely, it is now progressive 'liberals' who adhere to this bankrupt and dangerous doctrine. The want to drive down coronavirus infections and will support any measures they believe will achieve this. They don't consider whether the cure may be worse than the disease. They don't consider whether the restrictions they support may actually kill more people in the long run. All they can see is Covid-19 and facts that obscure their fear ...

YouTube is awash with footage featuring violence, misinformation, extreme views, inappropriate sexual imagery - you name it. It's perhaps no wonder, given the rate of uploads to the video-sharing behemoth. Who, or what, could possibly keep on top of this digital torrent of toxicity? Sure, YouTube tries its best but it's fighting a losing battle. It's easy to find stuff that breaches the site's rules. Much of this footage has been clocking up views for months or years with no action taken against the offending accounts.  So why was it, then, that a song nobody has heard, by an artist nobody has heard of, got thrown in YouTube's virtual trash can almost as soon as it was posted on the site?   Maybe, just maybe, the answer lies in the subject matter.  'Algorithms' is a Green Day-esque track that rages against social media's propensity to entrench and reinforce personal prejudices, polarising political discourse and leading to fury and, ultimately, violence....