Measures we would have laughed at quite recently were welcomed. It is the measures that we would laugh about now that ought to concern us.

Whilst Eric Zemmour polls at around fifteen per cent but struggles to make the five hundred sponsors threshold, one can begin to understand the growing gap between French people and their elected representatives.

The truth is that wherever liberals gain power, they retain their grip on power with tactics as tenacious and duplicitous as any other type of elite.

In the era of Russian weakness, the West have tried to bring the border of NATO to the Russian frontier- the chief of the disagreements between the West and Russia in the post Cold War years.

The answer to Cherniss’s initial conundrum is very simple: humanitarians are often sociopaths and sentimentalists, who are more predisposed to ideological violence than the average person.

After all, once driving is made too expensive for us lowly ordinary citizens, the roads will be left to the pampered enjoyers of public-sector largesse.

Our ambitions need to be commensurately huge but grounded in reality.

The comments by Sheriff Cottam seem dangerously close to prescribing a view one “must” have about the pandemic and the folk heroes it has borne such as Captain Moore and healthcare workers.