It makes me so angry because these are not serious people and we are forced to pretend they are or get scolded for being elitists insufficiently open to new stalls in the marketplace of ideas when we point out a prerequisite for the debate stage should be understanding how literally anything works.

A few months ago I was at an event where the relevant Secretary of State was taking questions, dominated by the press trying to get him to say the wrong thing. It was a complete farce and nothing to do with holding ministers to account.