Well, the asterisks were flying over Glastonbury at the weekend, as were the Palestinian flags; and the British establishment didn’t like it one bit.

Nobody does righteous indignation better than a British politician, and Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy outdid themselves ahead of Kneecap’s set on the West Holts stage on Saturday.

The Belfast (“and Derry”) rappers and their fans aren’t the only ones chanting expletives about Starmer.

This is a family newspaper, and I cannot use the word, but I don’t imagine there’s a single reader of this paper who doesn’t agree with Kneecap’s phrase linking an infamous four-letter word and the name of the prime minister.

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And there’s a long list of people using that phrase right now – more than 100 Labour MPs among them, alongside many natural Labour supporters, the unemployed, the chronically ill and disabled,........

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