Conscience unclear
There was a time, in the Ancient Greek city state of Sparta, when votes were measured using acclamation voting: whichever side shouted the loudest, won.
This practice, though undoubtedly invigorating, eventually yielded to the rather more logical system of counting. However, this ancient system now appears to have been resurrected, in the form of social media.
As National MP Simon O’Connor found out, there is now such a thing as a conscience which dare not speak for terror of being pilloried by an electronic cacophony.
In a week that provoked horrifying echoes of Margaret Atwood’s , the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v
