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Hello, I'm Natasha Faroze and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Every week, a few of our favourite writers read their pieces from the latest

issue. This week, we'll hear from Nick Moore on the recent suspension of politics for all.

Tanya Gold on the Perks of Chicken Soup and Cindy Yu, who reviewed the Kingdom of Characters,

a book about Chinese language. First up, Nick Moore.

On the 2nd of January,

I woke up late to the sound of my phone

buzzing continuously

and a sense that something had gone badly wrong.

The first message was from a friend.

Having a nice holiday, he wrote,

above a screenshot of my political Twitter account

covered in block letters, suspended.

My reaction was to swear in just the way my dad does whenever he crashes his car.

Politics rule was a news aggregation service I started two years ago when I was 17.

It took the most salient lines from news articles and posted them across social media, always pointing readers to the original publication.

The aim was to engage a younger audience in politics by summarising stories in a more accessible way.

It worked, amassing nearly 500,000 followers in around two years.

400,000 of those in the past eight months.

What started out as a hobby, born of my own interest in politics,

ended up as a major Twitter account, followed by hundreds of MPs,

many cabinet ministers, including the Chancellor and even the Prime Minister's wife.

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