Cummings is the Machiavelli of our times. His self-serving honesty and self-criticism were perfectly calibrated to rehabilitate his image, win over doubters and stick the knife more deeply into Boris Johnson.

Pro-Israel Jewish groups want to treat us all like Corbyn, demonising us as antisemites unless we fall silent even as Israel once again brutalises Palestinians.

Keir Starmer is not seeking to ‘de-escalate’ the ‘tensions’ causing bloodshed thousands of miles away in the Middle East. Rather, he is fuelling those very same tensions, escalating them, in his own back yard.

Constant acts of intimidation and violence by political and media elites to crush media pluralism in the name of ‘democratic values’ serve only to further expose the hypocrisy and bad faith of the corporate media and its hired hands.

The British establishment can risk making Boris Johnson vulnerable only because the establishment interests he represents are no longer vulnerable.

We are not conquerors of our bodies, of the planet, of the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we’re waging is one we can never hope to win.

The wall-to-wall propaganda we are being subjected to on the death of a royal may look exceptional but is in fact entirely routine. It is simply that in normal times the propaganda is better masked, wrapped in the illusion of choice and variety.

Just as free speech is being shut down on the grounds that we must not offend, so the right to protest is being shut down on the grounds that we must not disturb.

Every moment of Mos-Shogbamimu’s five-minute attack on Piers Morgan on his own show is being stage-managed. View it as a sophisticated lullaby, masquerading as fearless honesty, singing us deeper into sleep.

We are presented with a false binary choice. Either we cheer on the Royal Family and implicitly condone their racism; or we cheer on Meghan and implicitly support her battle to better veil the feudal ugliness of the British monarchy.

Bullying people to take the Covid vaccine – whether through incentives or punishments – is not social solidarity or social responsibility. It is a smug liberal conceit masquerading as those things.

The majority of doctors, like the majority of journalists, politicians and academics, have been captured by corporate interests. They are in thrall to ‘guild’ interests designed by Big Pharma to benefit not patients but patents and profits.

Politicians and their scientist enablers poured huge sums into labs, into test-tubes and into man-made magic bullets while they contemptuously ignored sunlight because it is free, everywhere and the magic of the stars.

In sacking a columnist for a tweet criticising Israel, the Guardian didn’t stop antisemitism. It policed leftwing speech highlighting the continuing imperialist, colonial nature of western societies

The left cannot echo the rhetoric of the west’s warmongering power-elite and not also take responsibility for the wars that result from that warmongering.

Trump is not the enemy. That target is far too small and limited. The class he belongs to is our enemy, as is the system of privilege he has spent the past four years upholding.