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The world is falling apart, says Jon Honeyball, and we can’t just stick a pin in it

Remember the promise of an open, free and trustable internet that we nerds enjoyed in the nineties and noughties? Today, that dream seems not only distant but impossibly innocent.

Much of the blame can be laid at the truly spectacular decade that we are currently enduring, starting with The Pandemic Must Not Be Named. Then the humanitarian disaster of Ukraine. And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, along comes the Middle East.

All of this is horrible, and our hearts reach

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