I am in mourning for my favourite YouTube videos: clips of Comment with Jeremy Corbyn, his phone-in show on Iranian state television. Being a TV host was not his métier — let’s just say he is not Ant or Dec — but entertainment was still to be had watching him politely field callers who described Israel as a “disease” and the BBC as “Zionist liars”.

Then, just before the last election, whoever believed the videos were a good advert for the MP’s worldview decided that perhaps after all they weren’t and removed them.

Mr Corbyn continued to appear on Press TV, even after it had its UK licence revoked by Ofcom in 2012 for its role in filming the forced confession of a journalist