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Zack Polanski deserves ridicule for his claims to be able to enlarge women's breasts by hypnosis, and Louise Ellman deserves the same for her claim to have been able to read Jeremy Corbyn's "antisemitic thoughts". Presumably, she considers that he still has them, most recently his condemnation of piracy.

Unhinged hysterics are in the ascendant. Nine years ago, no national emergency was declared after the London Bridge attack. No marches were banned. A COBRA meeting was called after eight deaths, aside from the three perpetrators, plus 48 injuries, 21 of them critical. This week, it took only two of the 150 to 212 knife attacks committed per day in the United Kingdom. Both were committed by the same man. They were two out of the three by him that day, none of which killed anyone.

The matey Police banter about Golders Green with "Tommy Robinson" and his ilk on Twitter is not the only reason, although it is a very good one, to say that a white suspect who had already been Tasered would not have been repeatedly kicked in the head in broad daylight in the middle of the street, much less would the Police have allowed an enforcer for the local "community leaders" to join in, albeit mostly in the classic pose of the bullies' weedy hanger-on, that of holding down the victim. Who had already been Tasered. Take as long as you need.

When it came to the two Green council candidates who had been arrested, if they were charged, then it would look like dancing to Keir Starmer's tune while exacting revenge on Polanski, while if they were not, then the initial arrests would look like dancing to Starmer's tune while exacting revenge on Polanski. Yet neither one week before elections, nor at any other time, has there ever been any Police rebuke by open letter, or any arrest of council candidates with spicy social media histories, when, as has happened repeatedly, Nigel Farage has threatened to bring private prosecutions because the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service had not jumped high enough on his orders.