Right, so Palestine Action, having undertaken their brisk tour of the airbase at Brize Norton last year, did of course give two RAF Voyager aircraft a makeover in that well-known colour, “international incident red.”

Keir Starmer, as he never misses an opportunity to overreact, responded by hurriedly slapping a terrorism ban on the movement. All of that we already know of course.

Now, you can think breaking into an RAF base and spraying military planes is irresponsible, reckless, criminal, all of the above. Fine. It was always going to attract attention, that was the point. This was not somebody glueing themselves to a council chamber door here.

But there is quite a leap, isn’t there, between prosecuting the people who got into the base and declaring the entire movement a terrorist organisation?

That was Starmer’s leap. ...