‘Perhaps we could have won WWII,’ a friend of mine mused, ‘by having Winston Churchill tweet photos of himself holding a sheet of paper saying ‘Mr Hitler, get out of Poland’.’ 2014, for all its awful events, will be known as the year we regressed to the hieroglyph. Activists, if they’re even deserving of the name, have taken the radical ‘60s slogan that the personal is political too literally.