Ian O’Doherty: It’s easy to laugh at the UK over its policing of tweets until a knock comes to your door

When I was a child, we went to Romania. This was the late 1970s, and my father jumped at the chance of a trip to see Ceausescu’s workers’ paradise in action. He learnt that Romania may have been many things, but a workers’ paradise it was not, and he renounced any affiliation with communism as soon as he returned.

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