An Island of Strangers, Led by a Party of Strangers

A Labour government with a historic majority has somehow decided the best way to beat the far right is to imitate its homework. Badly.

I have been inspired by many things in the past – a co-worker doing something in a way I’d never have thought of, an encounter with a particularly good speech and once, very memorably, a cake.

What I have, however, never been inspired by is Kristi Noem - a woman who made her name riding the full menagerie of Trumpist culture wars in the US with a penchan…