Eurosceptics are finally having to emerge from their safe space

I accept it may take an effort to imagine Charles Moore dressed in a recyclable hemp skirt and organic cotton kimono, his body adorned with the bangles, tattoos and piercings of a genderqueer National Union of Students diversity officer.

But you should try. No, really, you should. Students are not the only ones who lock themselves in safe spaces and no-platform all who disturb their doltish peace with argument. The poor dears of the Eurosceptic right are every bit as precious.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Moore, of this parish, found the courage to overcome the subaltern status a hierarchical society has imposed on him, and bring us a survivor’s testimony on behalf of himself and all his friends.

Opponents of Britain remaining in the EU were open-minded and thoughtful – even if he did say so himself. The ‘in’ campaigners, by contrast, were ‘bigots’; an elite of ‘well-connected, powerful, pompous people’, so prejudiced they could not make the effort to understand the views of their Eurosceptic victims.