I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Farage's response to a Reform Sennedd member using the phrase "no chinky spies for me" in a private message was apparently "She used a word that colloquially probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago." Isn't that more worrying?