When most people hear knocking on their door, they expect a hurried delivery driver, but not for Allison Pearson, who opened hers to two policemen standing before her. Due to a one-year old deleted tweet, the astonished journalist was being accused of a non-hate crime incident. This was all unfolding on Remembrance Sunday, where Allison had been getting ready to commemorate the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought for Britain. Most certainly, they wouldn’t have had time to scrutinise social media posts in their squalid trenches.

“Trump punches his fist in the air, two stripes of blood swiped across his face, with mouth wide open in call to fight. Similar scenes in oil paintings and movies are familiar, but to witness a display of strength in a moment of terror is rare.”