That joke isn’t funny any more

The right-wing press accuses other people of spreading hate; some philosophical razors; and a map of Napoleon’s Europe.

Somehow, barely five years after Jo Cox, it happened again. On Friday afternoon, the Tory MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery on Friday afternoon. The tributes, from across the house, suggest that, whatever his politics, he was a genuinely nice man, who died doing his job. It’s awful.

But the exhausting thing wasn’t just the…