This is West Cornwall, land of fishing, jam first and Trotskyite crafters. There is a sizeable community of nutters yearning for a Cornish intifada: the freedom within, and the freedom without. The old joke is: the duchy is shaped like a Christmas stocking and all the nuts are in the toe.

Extinction Rebellion (XR) used to be the big thing down here. My cleaner, a serious deal in XR, screamed at me when my husband put a Tory sign in our garden for the 2019 general election campaign – but fashions change.

There are other things to be extinguished now. Since 7 October 2023, the nutters have embraced their own version of Palestinian nationalism and, this being West Cornwall, it is art-themed. I don’t know what it is about anti-Semites and bad art, but some here make Hitler look like Auerbach

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