These are hard troubling times for the sensible, rational and logical. So few places remain for nuance, for moderate voices, for complexity and depth. Now, asking hard questions is troublemaking, seeing both sides is contrarianism, playing the devils advocate is career ending. Yet progress depends on debate, on hard questions, on hard truths, on a depth of understanding, on probing. The more moderate voices leave platforms, the more we seek to understand things in a superficial way, the more we turn to facile gestures, the more intolerant we become of those who make us think, the less the path ahead will ever be forged. Instead rabid extremes fight it out whipped up by entrenched supporters and algorithms Wish we could go to the pub and discuss this. …see more