Much as football commentators are doomed forever to reference the Keystone Cops more than a century after the fact, UK political commentators will go to their graves insisting that two scenes in a movie released before they were born explain everything anybody ever needs to know about The Left.

Gregk Foley

When I say being under the age of 40 in the UK feels like being trapped in a snow globe on your grandparents’ mantle, I mean stuff like an FT columnist asking “Did you get that Monty Python joke?” when I know a single Conor O’Malley video would send him into a sputtering reactionary frenzy.