Pity Olivia Colman. She didn’t want it to become the headline that she sometimes thinks of herself as a gay man – but clearly forgot how neurotic and demagogic much of the British press becomes if you say anything mildly provocative about sexuality and gender.

Here’s what happened. In an interview last week with the American LGBTQ publication Them, when asked about her penchant for taking roles in films featuring LGBTQ characters (say, The Favourite or Heartstopper), the actor said that she feels that she has a foot in various camps. “Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I’ve always felt sort of nonbinary … I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, ‘Yeah, I get that.’”

Now, you could easily park this in the category of “vacuous things celebrities say when attempting to get you to watch their film” (in this case, Jimpa, in which Colman plays the mother of a non-binary teenager). Or in another, even more obnoxious category: “things wealthy white celebrities with cushty lives say to make themselves sound a little more interesting”. Britain’s........

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