Imagine how desperate people must be to get aboard a boat barely fit for purpose and then largely drift across some of the world’s most dangerous stretches of open water in the hope of finding a better life.

Throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, a lot of UK culture was based on what many saw as a “harmless bit of fun.”

There is a strange irony to the violence taking place in the UK.

Anyone who has applied for a job recently will have noticed certain words and acronyms that were not necessarily common before the coronavirus lockdowns.

When Sir Keir Starmer told an elated group of Labour Party faithful in the early hours of Friday, “We did it. Change begins now,” he did so in the knowledge that despite a landslide victory in the UK general election, he remains anything but safe.