I’ve been a long term admirer of the writer and commentator Raheem Kassam. I may not agree with him on everything, but ever since I heard his story of how attending a college Islamic group meeting and seeing the naked,hateful extremism on display and it causing him to walk away from Islam and be on the side of liberty, I’ve taken notice of what he has had to say.

Today’s quote is Raheem Kassam at his best, most waspish and indeed his most accurate. In reply to a Tweet by Britain’s new puritanical Cromwell, Boris Johnson, Mr Kasaam said this: