Quotes of the day 23rd May 2022

  'If we have learned anything since the 2016 referendum, it is just how heaving the UK’s educated middle classes are with cranks, obsessives, fantasists, conspiracy theorists and downright crackpots.'


(Stephen Daisley on Twitter, responding to the suggestion that Union Flags hanging in Regent Street to mark the Queen's forthcoming Platinum Jubilee somehow has relevance to Nationalism which justifies a big headline about Nazi Germany.)

Geoff Norcott commented on some of the same comments which inspired Stephen's tweet

"Twitter needs to have an automatic pop-up saying:

'Are you *sure* you want to compare this to Nazi Germany?'"

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