Farage, the self-styled defender of ‘free speech’, refusing to take questions from the BBC. The mask slips quickly. Markedly more brittle and insecure than the bluster implies.

Reform are discovering that governing is ever so slightly harder than shouting from the cheap seats. Turns out running a council is a bit more complicated than running social-media accounts devoted to outrage and whatever conspiracy happens to be doing the rounds that morning.

Nigel Farage spent his school years as a racist bully, but apparently the real national scandal is Rachel Reeves winning the ‘wrong’ chess championship.