Interviews with the Canadian academic, clinical psychologist and culture war belligerent Jordan B Peterson can go badly wrong, sometimes for the interviewer, sometimes for Peterson. Sometimes for both. His most infamous encounter was with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News last year, an interview that has been watched more than 16 million times. Although Newman’s approach seemed designed to confirm Peterson’s reputation among the liberal left as a misogynist, most think she was worsted by him. After that, however, she received such violent abuse online that Peterson intervened on Twitter to ask his supporters to stop threatening her.

Eighteen months on, he is not exactly extending the hand of friendship. “I thought it was very underhanded of her to come out and play the victim.