Interviewed for one of the Channel 4 reports, she speaks of Cambridge Analytica’s ‘massive propaganda effort [which] affected the thought processes of voters’. And yet data analysis is at the heart of modern political campaigning. Clinton, after all, preferred to study data on Michigan from the comfort of her Brooklyn campaign office than actually to visit the state, even as panicking Michigan Democrats pleaded with her to spend time there in the final weeks.

Great analysis within, with a clear historical viewpoint. But I very much enjoyed this particular observation. Go ahead, continue to lionize your fallen heroine. But if you do so, you're setting aside vital critical thinking you'll need for '20. As this undeserved worship continues, I have less and less optimism for the Democratic Party as a whole. "But she's a woman!" So was Geraldine Ferraro. Go read about Gerry sometime. She was the harbinger.

Ideological lockstep is ridiculous. I support people who deserve my support. Those numbers are thinning.

But what's really good is this quote: "For that matter, to say that a Guardian reader consents to all the ways the Guardian uses their data (which they deposit every time they visit the website) is to misunderstand the essentially malleable nature of data itself. Its potential value and use emerges after one has collected it, not before."

We lapse into allowing our data on these services, but they can become weaponized against us after the fact.

Makes you rethink all those lovely little smartphone-pingers you signed up for, no?