Green Party meetings in the working-class cities of Bradford and Wakefield attracted crowds of hundreds last month. Elsewhere, Green support has surged in places like Teesside and Lewisham. Polanski’s anti-establishment politics are clearly gaining attention.

RCP members hit the streets of Manchester last weekend to get a sense of the mood around the Gorton & Denton by-election. It’s clear that ordinary Mancunians are fed up with establishment politics, and despise Starmer’s Labour Party.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a raft of ‘law-and-order’ reforms to British policing. But beneath the blustering bravado about forces being made ‘match fit’, these measures are pathetically inadequate to solve the establishment’s problems.