The riddle I’m at a loss to explain

SOME of you may follow me on Twitter. I recommend it. It can be an exhilarating ride with much extra controversy and barbed exchanges. The address is at the top of the page.

Others may not know what this means, so I will explain. You sign up with a few simple clicks. Then you see tweets in which I frequently comment on current events, defend my ideas and draw attention to what I think are interesting articles, books, programmes etc. If you don’t like it, you can then ‘unfollow’ me – though few do, or rather did. A good number of followers gives my words a bit of extra weight.

Over many years I’ve built up a reasonable number of such followers. But in recent weeks a very strange thing has begun to happen. People who follow me report that they have ‘unfollowed’ me mysteriously in the night. Or rather, they didn’t. Someone else took me off their list. I have no idea who is doing this, or why. I do know that several others who dissent from the majority view on Covid are having the same experience. It gives me the creeps, on quite a large scale.