Westminster’s Twitter addiction: what would it take to kill off X?

Westminster loves to moan about the social media platform formerly known as Twitter even as it becomes ever less useful to politicians and journalists alike. What would it take to finally kill off X and what would replace it?

Parliamentary Minds

Public life is demanding, and public expectations of MPs are at an all-time high. Work takes place across most weekends and during unsociable hours. It can take an MP far away from their support networks at home, and it follows them home too. The frequency of online abuse towards MPs is high, and it often speaks louder than praise. All these facets of the job mean that living with a mental health condition and meeting your responsibilities as an MP is incredibly difficult.

A tale of two Italian cafes

Caffettino and Captain Corelli’s are two Italian-owned cafes on Battersea Park Road. Both serve an excellent cappuccino. They lie merely a few doors down from each other and together form a strange timeline of Italian migration to Britain. I was first introduced to Corelli’s’ by my Australian-Italian friend Lydia Di Stefano, who lived just across… Continue reading A tale of two Italian cafes