My favourite reaction to a general election result came in 2015, from a university lecturer called Rebecca Roache. Viewing with dismay the unexpected Conservative majority, Becky announced she would unfriend anybody who linked to Tory stuff on social media and said all people who had voted Conservative were akin to racists, homophobes and sexists.

Then, rather wonderfully, she explained her decision by saying she was “tired of reasoned debate”. What did she lecture in? Yup, philosophy. Thank the Lord the likes of Socrates and Wittgenstein weren’t afflicted by such adolescent pique, poppet, or you wouldn’t have a job.

Yet the Roache Dialectic has now become utterly ubiquitous and it is why we have Days of Rage, rather than Days of Reasoned Debate. In the bizarre,