British politics is now so far down the rabbit hole that Newsnight can put Count Binface on a politics panel and seriously discuss whether he might beat Nigel Farage in a by-election and become an MP.
And the mad part is not that Count Binface is being asked the questions.
The mad part is that, compared with much of Westminster, he sounds no less plausible.
This is where the political class has dragged us: a country so exhausted by managed decline, broken promises, donor politics and manufactured leadership contests that the man with a bin on his head is treated as part joke, part protest vote, part constitutional possibility.
Satire used to mock politics from the outside.
Now it has been invited onto the panel because politics has become satire manifest.
When we think of the Battle of the Somme today, 110 years later, we reflect on the futility of warfare and the loss of so many young British and Commonwealth soldiers.
The Somme was split into many different actions, from the notorious first day, where over 18,500 Commonwealth soldiers were killed in a single morning, to the introduction of Commonwealth troops in July and August, to the final battles around the Ancre Heights.
But the Somme is more than just a single campaign. It holds historical resonance for sure, but the Somme’s effects can still be felt today. Discover more by reading our latest blog, link below.
#Somme110
Well, T-7 hardly going to be top of the list to be based @RAF_Valley as it can't fly in rain. Anyone now being heard to back T-7 has to be regarded as educational sub-normal...
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French President Emmanuel Macron pulls off what could be the greatest diplomatic troll of all time by getting Trump to sign the "$300 Billion US Surrender to Iran" deal in... Versailles. The ignoramus Trump will have been clueless as to the historical significance of the location