Frank Turner stands just to the left of Prince William in an Eton rugby team in 1995

Let us begin with a short list of things you should know about Frank Turner.

He’s a 33-year-old folk/punk singer, who is about to release his sixth solo album. Before being a folk/punk singer he was a hardcore punk singer (which is a very different, and frankly noisier, affair) with a band called Million Dead, who were almost, but not quite, a band of whom you might almost have heard. He has a great many tattoos. Recently, he had some new ones put on his hands, and his mum wasn’t happy at all.

His politics are perhaps not what you’d expect. Also, he’s clever. Over the course of our two-hour chat in a Camden beer garden, he will mention George Orwell, Clive James, the 15th-century