Keir Starmer is unpopular. You may have noticed this from his record-breakingly low approval ratings. The weekend just gone brought pungent public confirmation: booing at the mention of his name at the Royal Variety performance at the Albert Hall and a spirited chant among the crowd at the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace, which threw an accusation of onanism on to the critical palette.

This is not a new phenomenon. You will remember that George Osborne was booed at the Olympics. And older readers will recall that Margaret Thatcher’s name was greeted with hisses and rumbles even in politer times. But above the street level, in the broad flow of our popular culture, where is the outrage?

There is much to be outraged about, as if you need reminding. Let’s get the charge sheet out. On the admin level, Labour has passed laws to expel its political opponents from the second chamber of Parliament, simultaneously flooding that same chamber with their own loyal lickspittles. They have cancelled elections that they were extremely likely to lose, for the second year running. They are trying their damndest to abolish trial by jury. This is the same Labour party that regularly denounces Putin and Viktor Orbán, happily adopting the same tactics because… well, it’s ok when Labour do it, apparently.

There is so much public anger against Labour, but virtually........

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