In the lead-up to the election that swept Labour to power with what one wit dubbed “a loveless landslide” (due to the element of punishment-voting against the surreally incompetent Conservative government) many commentators wondered whether Sir Keir Starmer’s rule would be boring (his vocal delivery is a cross between a robot and a substitute geography teacher who’s not angry with the class — just disappointed) or fanatical.

The Labour Party has been effectively captured by extreme ideology to the extent that the new minister for Women and Equalities, Anneliese Dodds, when asked the question “What is a woman?”, replied “There are different definitions…I think it does depend what the context is.” Surely it couldn’t be both boring and fanatical? So whichever one it was, at least there would be the ensuing relief of it not being the other.