Online revenge is Tweet for Daisy May

Hats off to the fabulously talented Daisy May Cooper for treating online bullies with all the laugh-out-loud dismissiveness they deserve.

They went low by describing the 33-year-old as “a troll” when she appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox with her father. She went high by posting a film of herself – pregnant with her second child – dancing along to the song Trolls Just Want To Have Fun from the film Trolls 2,

“Haters gonna hate, but I’m going to carry on letting my hooters swing.”

As co-writer and co-star of This Country, the hilariously poignant mockumentary, Cooper, below, has no need to demonstrate her comedy chops. But demonstrate it she did.

Having said that, unless you are highly selective, Twitter is a pretty humourless sphere, full of charmless ranting and tedious political pointscoring.

I was an early adopter of Twitter – way back in 2009! – but have only ever sent five tweets, and two of them appear to be about a game I’ve never heard of, called Flappy Golf.

Truthfully, after a day’s graft, I struggle to find time and energy to take to cyberspace to fire off opinions to strangers.

Not so BBC news and current affairs presenters, who are apparently becoming “addicted to Twitter”, according to the corporation’s head of standards.

David Jordan revealed that senior staff had been discipplined over their use of social media amid complaints they have “overstepped the mark” in a desire to “go viral”.

In recent months, Emily Maitlis, Huw Edwards, Laura Kuenssberg and North America editor Jon Sopel have all been criticised for online posts.

Given the current argy-bargy, a nice “digital detox” could be in order. Laura, if you or Daisy May fancy joining me in a game of Flappy Golf, do please get in touch. Ideally by post, rather than a post.