Forty nine innocent people were gunned down in a gay nightclub in Florida on Sunday and 53 more have been injured. But the really important thing to remember is that this is NOT about Owen Jones.

Is everyone clear about that?

Only I feel the need to point it out because, judging by the thousands of abusive tweets I have received since the weekend, you might be forgiven for thinking that the worst thing that has happened to anyone in the entire world on Sunday was a Left-wing journalist getting cross and storming out of a Sky News studio.

Again, that needs to be said out loud because actually this is about the dozens of young gay Americans who went out clubbing on a Saturday night and are now lying dead in an Orlando morgue simply because their killer Omar Mateen thought they loved the wrong people. It is not about one gay journalist and his apparently hurt feelings.

Not that I am, strictly speaking, allowed to make that judgment call, of course, because I am not gay and therefore I am required to check my heterosexual privilege at the door before venturing to offer an opinion on anything that affects gay people.