This is how democracies unravel. Long after the Gorton and Denton by-election has been forgotten, the campaign and the precedent it set will continue to disfigure our politics.
The Green Party has put out a video aimed at voters in Denton and Gorton, who go to the polls today in a by-election. Nothing unusual there. Except that this video is wholly in Urdu.
DANIEL HANNAN: I'm afraid the disaster of lockdown - or, more precisely, the public clamour for lockdown - has knocked the optimism out of me personally and out of Britain as a whole.
DANIEL MATTHEWS IN MIAMI: Perhaps referee Chris Young put it best when he warned both fighters midway through the fight: 'The fans did not pay to see this c***!'