I tuned in the other day to an excellent webinar titled Prayer and Pushback organised by the redoubtable Pat Mesiti. It was a forum for Covid dissenters, Woke critiques, and climate deplorables. A similar event of Pat’s a year ago earned scrutiny from some publications with the descriptor, ‘a beauty parade of anti-vaxxers’. There were a few star performers speaking this time, but latest webinar deliberately avoided the usual social media platforms so that it wouldn’t be trolled and forced to use that favoured tactic of Covid and other dissidents, the blotting out of trigger words (like vaccine) that bring the algorithmic censors into...