I’m loath to admit it but I think I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I know that being here is wrong and every passing day exposes me to more trauma and risks of indoctrination. I also know the more settled I become in this wall-less prison the more it emboldens my captor –but every now and again I see things from his perspective and things just make a tiny bit more sense than they did before.

I have tried to escape but my surroundings, although increasingly grubby, are familiar. Bluesky may look and feel something like X but Elon’s app has had its claws in me for too long for me to just walk away. The chaos that is now part and parcel of the platform throws up things that you know are right in amongst all the wrong, and you can’t help but concede that but for its existence many things that deserve to be either scrutinized or ridiculed simply wouldn’t see the light of day.

Which takes me to last weekend where I stumbled across a video of a police chase that was so ridiculous I knew after a few seconds I was doomed to watch it all and shake my head at its conclusion before I even knew what that was likely to be.

The short version is the suspect escapes and the police officer is quite badly injured as he is loudly ridiculed by those recording his misfortune as they follow the drama in their car. Nothing especially remarkable about that you might think until I tell you the pursuing officer was on roller-blades as he chased his suspect through the streets of an English city centre, and his........

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