Guardian - 21 January 2018, 02:03 (+ 2308 days 7 hours and 46 minutes) In Depth/Analysis
The Tory politician should be allowed his youthful mistakes, some argue. But some mistakes are worse than othersDigital footprints really can be a bind. One minute, you’re a YouTube sensation being paid thousands to appear on a reality TV show; the next, you’re in the tabloids for saying something racist, sexist or a bit of both when you were 14.In some ways, it’s fitting that Ben Bradley, the Conservatives’ vice-chair for youth, should have experienced what is a particularly adolescent kind of disgrace. Last week, Buzzfeed News unearthed some of his old blogposts, in which a 22-year-old Bradley had written that vasectomies could be one way to stop unemployed people, or “a vast sea of unemployed wasters”, as he put it, having too many kids. Continue reading...