It’s hard to adjust to the new post-sanity political landscape. The Times (of London) devoted the top half of page three on Saturday to “one of Donald Trump’s most prominent and provocative supporters”, Milo Yiannopoulos.

Milo, as people tend to call him, as they call Boris Johnson, Boris, “delights in giving offence”, The Times noted,? as “baiter-in-chief at the controversial Breitbart News website”. He was “returning to Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury” to give a talk, as old boys do. But this was someone who had “boasted of Breitbart headlines such as ‘Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?’ and whose Twitter account was suspended for trolling the black American actress and comedian Leslie Jones”.

The Times sniffed trouble ahead, quoting the school as saying it “did not practise censorship” and trusted its students to “use their reason to assail bad arguments and applaud sound ones”. On Saturday evening, Yiannopoulos popped up on the Sky News press review, giggling a lot and explaining that it had all been a big joke when Trump had tweeted the day before (about Mike Pence, his vice president-elect, being lectured from the stage at the theatre): “The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man.”