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I prefer teaching the post- 2015 period, when social media were beginning to be drawn into the currency of private lives, when waves of fantastical or malevolent or silly rumours began to shape the nature not only of politics but of human understanding. In the stampede, grisly government secrets were spilled, childhoods despoiled , honourable reputations trampled down and loud- mouthed fools elevated.