“World Television produces the fake news, but its efforts are entirely funded by the Foreign Office, which spent �340m on propaganda activities in the UK alone in 2001. A comprehensive post- 9/11 overhaul means that this figure has probably markedly increased since then…”

For those who still care, this would be well worth digging into in more detail, perhaps starting with the propaganda channel’s website. This isn’t new, as this report from March last year shows. It is, however, yet another reason to send me apopleptic. My anger levels are at a genuinely violent level today – and following the precedent of yesterday’s anti-smoking vote, I utterly demand that the government bans itself for the sake of my health.