What’s weirder: asking if a woman can have a penis or being so flummoxed by such a simple query that you start to stutter and sweat and flat-out refuse to answer? It’s the latter, isn’t it? To most normal people out there, the loon isn’t the person who would like to know if you understand primary-school biology – it’s the person who quite clearly does not.

The one word that didn’t leave her lips is the one most five-year-olds would gleefully cry if this question were put to them: ‘NO!’

The one word that didn’t leave her lips is the one most five-year-olds would gleefully cry if this question were put to them: ‘NO!’

Consider the mad clash between Piers Morgan and Rachel Millward, co-deputy leader of the Green Party. On Question Time last week, Morgan, on one of his delicious wind-ups, asked Millward if a woman can have a penis. As we know from Keir Starmer’s fear-stricken gibberish replies to this query, and poor old Ed Davey’s twaddle about how some women ‘quite clearly’ sport a manhood, this stickler is like kryptonite for the political class. And so it proved for Ms Millward.

She did everything she could to dodge the question. She got flustered, she fidgeted, she called Morgan ‘weird’. The one word that didn’t leave her lips is the one most five-year-olds would gleefully cry if this question were put to them: ‘NO!’ ‘You........

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