“You want to hear a joke? I’ll tell you a joke. What’s green, is nailed to the wall, and whistles?” “ ... I give up.” “A herring.” “A herring’s not green!” “Nu, you can paint it green.” “But it’s not ...

If the twentieth century was “the age of anxiety”, then the early decades of the new millennium deserve to be called “the age of horror”, for two related reasons. The first is the rise of social media ...