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.

However much of a traditionalist a dissident may be, he would do well to have books such as Thinking, Fast and Slow in his library.

While we continue to lambast one individual for breaking his own rules, we fail to question whether the rules themselves were ever humane, dignified or evidence-based.

We will be educated on the horror of this sort of war.

Tory rebels are all talk, and deserve no faith to be placed in them.