IF every Brexiteer contributor to the cosy garden ‘man shed’ that Hear All Sides has become would spend 15 minutes online watching journalist Carole Cadwalladr’s TED talk at last week’s Silicon Valley conference in Vancouver in which she bravely calls out the tech billionaires for enabling such dissemblers as Nigel Farage and his cohorts to break democracy.

Once they have watched it, they must surely wonder if they have indeed been misled and manipulated into voting us all into the abyss.

Margaret Eason, Darlington