The BBC excelled themselves recently as slave-trade apologists when the panel of ‘Politics Live’ on BBC 2 collectively cut off and chastised a Colston Four defendant when they had the gall to suggest that Bristol City Council decision-making was dominated by a cabal of the unelected, super-rich and prejudiced descendants of slave-traders.

It seems that the Merchant Venturer mafia are more influential nationally than we may have imagined. Whoever we elect Washington calls the shots. Strange days indeed.