Following social media crimes part one, here are some more suggestions for future laws on the prevention of offending:

Building a palace of self-delusion
It isn't that people have a problem with boasting. What your social media presence must never become is a brick-by-brick construction of...

I'm not talking about stalking someone via foursquare. This isn't a piece about setting up a bomb-making Tumblr. I'm not even talking about exposing yourself on Instagram, I'm just talking about social network behaviour that yanks at our collective chains.

When the revolution comes, these are the top three...

What makes good commentary? I'd say that has to be topical, significant, insightful, and it has to grab attention. Laurie Penny understands how to capture attention. I keep going back to her writing despite her apparent fondness for generalisation and assumption. Perhaps the price to be paid for arresting comment...

It is one thing to have protesters lining up to buy their coffee in Starbucks, and their food in supermarkets, while claiming that capitalism is broken. It is forgivable, perhaps, for the protesters to exclaim their diffuse raft of complaints with the world from their iPhones and on their Facebook...

It is an inevitable consequence of holding a position which requires the constant exercise of judgment that a Prime Minister will make mistakes. So far, David Cameron has embodied the Teflon-like qualities of a successful leader, rather than rushing impulsively to command the news cycle with new announcements and knee-jerk...

Australia is likely to become the first country to legally require cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging. The legislation enforces a standardised olive-green packaging with gruesome images and health warnings. Australia's Labour government considers this policy "very courageous."

The tobacco companies are involved in...

After the brazen, muscular intervention of Jason Bourne, a reawakened killer who smashes through a catalogue of overpriced hit men and corrupt government projects with an onslaught of impossibly long brawls, James Bond returned to our screens. Daniel Craig's increasingly humourless, and uncultured Bond has taken a wrong turn somewhere:...

Of late Sally Bercow has been attempting a backwards Lembit Opik: whilst the path from politician to media personality is a well-trodden one, it seems harder to perform the reverse. Whereas Opik went from having a respectable innings as a member of parliament to becoming the butt of almost an...