And how many of them have more than a proverbial handful of members and any chance of winning seats in local or national parliaments?

I know these parties - or parties like them - exist. I also know that they are largely way too marginal as to tip the scales of politics in any way. Unlike UKIP, RefUK, or elsewhere the AfD in Germany, RN in France, FdI in Italy, PVV in the Netherlands…

The funniest thing is that there is no real ‘far left’ to speak of in the UK or most other western countries. What they consider ‘far left’ is in fact the moderate, left-of-centre politics which only appear more extreme because the Overton window has been dragged so far towards the right.

Naja, die AfD ist ja nicht erst seit gestern ein Thema. Die führen das weiter, was schon vor langer Zeit mit der NPD anfing und dann um 2014 mit Pegida erst mal richtig Traktion bekam, nämlich die Etablierung von rechtsextremem Gedankengut im politischen Mainstream. Im Parlament sitzt die Partei ja nun auch schon seit sieben Jahren.

More like in favour of non-shitty Bluetooth earbuds. I’ve never had this kind of issue with mine.

My German father, who lived and worked in Budapest for a long time, pronounced it wrong. I rarely have cause to use the name but when I do, I try to do it justice.

I know this as ‘eat your frogs’.

I am generally unwilling to pay extra for features I don’t need and didn’t ask for.

The idiocy is that the same people who normally advocate for freedom of speech and freedom of consequences, who oppose what they call ‘cancel culture’, and who think that you should be able to say anything you want, who don’t believe that words have impact - they’re the exact same people who are getting all hot under the collar over this, and are more than happy for this particular speech to have consequences.

You can’t have it any which way. I don’t condone what Kyle Gas’s said, but it’s interesting if not disturbing to see who’s the loudest in advocating for severe consequences.

Read up a bit about Ralph Babet and you’ll see what a massive hypocrite the guy is.

It wasn’t too long ago that right wingers were marching the streets in the state of Victoria, calling for the then-Premier to be hanged. One woman who later got elected to the Victorian parliament said she wouldn’t rest until she saw him hanging from the end of a rope.

Guess who didn’t oppose those calls for violence? The same people who got their knickers in a twist over this one, that’s right.

They’re not getting deported. The senator who made that demand is on the fringe, doesn’t belong to any major party or group, and speaks for nobody but himself. He couldn’t have dialled up the histrionics any more if he’d actually tried.