By Abigail Pennson, our reasonable, plain-speaking middle-class columnist who voted 422 times for Yuval Raphael

VACLAV Havel. Aung San Suu Kyi. Nelson Mandala. All prisoners who became their country’s leader. I am privileged to present the next: Mrs Lucy Connolly.

You know the name, of course. Since her wrongful imprisonment for ‘inciting racial hatred’ – tweeting while heartbroken, in plain English – she’s all the nation talks about. I hear her name even when I’m alone in the room.

Her bravery. Her moral courage. How she managed to sum up how the whole nation was feeling, from the £2 car park at John O’Groats to the £10.99 Land’s End sign photo opportunity, in that measured tweet. And her unjust imprisonment.

Even in the darkness of the political prisoner’s wing – she tells me Keir re

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