I was just watching the BBC news channel as usual, sipping my morning coffee, when they suddenly flipped from their usual coverage to farage giving a speech. We all know what huge trouble Labour and Starmer are in over the Epstien files; but the last thing we need is the snivelling p’tahk farage sticking his neck in, making the morons listening to him laugh and stirring up trouble for his own benefit. The views of that charlatan are utterly irrelevant, on this or any other matter. He is a racist embarrassment to human civilisation who actively, knowingly deceived the country into voting for something contrary to our best interests: he should either be on his knees begging our forgiveness, or rotting in a jail cell. But there he was, mocking the government, cracking jokes and doing his pathetic statesman act; as if we don’t all know that, sooner or later, his name will no doubt appear in those very files as one of the biggest culprits.

It was so sickening that I turned it off. The thing is, the more such coverage the guy gets, the more he looks like a respectable politician and the more likely people are to forget that he’s a deceptive little xenophobe who should never have been allowed to rise to such prominence. More to the point, the Beeb should never have suddenly cut to him like that, as if his rancid, fascistic views have any relevance whatsoever to the current political situation.