It’s quite true that Jeremy Corbyn is having a tough campaign, having been eviscerated in television interviews with the Chief Rabbi now lined up against him. But we have to ask: how damaging is this, really? Support for Labour has been growing steadily since the election was called, just as it did in 2017. Anti-Semitism accusations were quite audible last time around and didn’t stop Labour picking up enough support to deny the Tories a majority. The worse the headlines are for Corbyn, the higher his support seems to climb.

Let’s not pretend that the Corbyn agenda is dismissed nationwide as a socialist calamity-in-waiting. His plans to nationalise water, railways, electricity and gas are supported by about half of all voters; his idea for a British Broadband Corporation is backed by a margin of three to one. So if you think Corbynomics is too radical, too off-the-wall to ever win an election, think again. Voters certainly regard it as impractical but there is a lot more public sympathy with his overall aims (and worldview) than the likes of like me normally admit.

The headlines are bad, but less harmful in an age when more people get their news from social media than from any newspaper. There’s no shortage of anti-Tory material in cyberspace: you can read that a Tory victory will mean selling the NHS to Americans, women paying to give birth, and worse. The wilder the conspiracy theory the more likely it is to be shared online. Almost a third of the electorate now regard the Prime Minister as racist, probably even more believe another internet trope that Tory austerity killed thousands. There is no ‘gatekeeper’ in social media, no one to be held to account if false information is spread. It’s a new game that the Tories are not very good at playing.