Day or night, rain or shine, yin or yang, there is a universal, untransmutable constant around which we can all coalesce, no matter our political colour, background or creed – it’s always the BBC’s fault.

When there’s a scandal that has unhinged the world from its axis, when the brown stuff is bouncing off the blades of the fan, and the usual suspects are polishing their words of outrage, we can all bet the farm that it’s the national broadcaster that’s getting it in the neck.

The latest calumny to rock the corporation to its foundations, concerns its apparent failure to immediately stop filming an obscure singer shouting some moronic things in a field in Somerset.

On that basis the world – and by that I mean the Conservative Party and the Daily Mail – have gone into meltdown, demanding the immediate arrest of anyone remotely connected to the affair, up to and including the director-general of the BBC.

God help us. If that was to transpire, we truly would be on a runaway train towards the terminus of a police state.

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Amid the froth and fury of events at Glastonbury last Sunday, it would benefit us all to draw breath and calmly consider what actually happened.

One of two punk singers, both called Bob Vylan – but whose true identities we don’t know because they refuse to divulge them – took time from their set to chant “death to the IDF” (Israeli Defence Force).

The performer of whom, before last weekend, few of us had ever heard, also used the phrase “from the river to the sea”, interpreted by some as........

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