It’s always fun when worlds collide – when two people whose paths should rightfully never intersect smash into one another like a car and train at a level crossing. I’ve enjoyed many such occurrences on the political scene over the years – like Mrs Thatcher doing the video vote on Saturday Superstore with René from ‘Allo ‘Allo. But I never expected to find myself involved in one.

That all changed on Saturday evening. There I was happily rolling pastry in the kitchen when suddenly my phone and other connected smart devices started flashing and pinging like a Chernobyl control panel. I snatched up my phone in my floury fingers to discover that I had been ‘dragged’ on X/Twitter by American rapper Azealia Banks.

It appeared that Banks had taken exception to the headline of a piece I wrote for the Telegraph last week about the magnificent poise, control, comic timing and serious intelligence of Kemi Badenoch in her Commons response to the King’s Speech.

The headline was,........

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