The great irony of Stormzy’s Glastonbury set

Look, I like Stormzy. I’ve been listening to his new single on a loop for the past week. He’s a talented guy. But the fawning over his Glastonbury performance has been bizarre.

Everyone from Glasto’s mostly white middle-class attendees to Jeremy Corbyn and his online army has been hailing it as a high point of musical rebellion and a historic two-finger salute to the evil Tory government. Get a grip — it was nothing of the kind.

In fact, musically Stormzy’s set may have been thrilling, but politically it was kind of ridiculous. Sure, he said ‘Fuck the government’ — making square lefties chirp with excitement — but his show was infused with government thinking. He opened his set with a surreal, Big Brother-style video manifestation of Labour MP David Lammy talking about racial unfairness in the criminal-justice system — which all comes from a government-commissioned report!

The Lammy Review was set up by David Cameron.