As an article in Politico notes, ‘even the primary authors’ of the resolution have ‘conceded there’s no obvious legal route to stop the presidency in its tracks’.

I was reminded of that time by a letter sent last week by Mark Serwotka – boss of the main civil-service union, the PCS – to Cabinet Office permanent secretary Alex Chisholm. Where you are in your thinking is very much needing a lot of enlightenment and reading’, said a British police officer last year to a woman whose speechcrime was to put stickers on her front door questioning the idea that transwomen are women. This is censorship’s grimmest offence – in shaming and silencing dissent, it delays our discovery of real, new truths, in this case the truth that shutting down society, education, civil liberties and global trade was always likely to have devastating consequences. Serwotka wrote in his letter to Chisholm that the Cabinet Office’s recruitment system is ‘wholly broken’ and that ‘racism remains a major issue’. More than anything else, Gender Wars shows how the fight for a sex-based definition of womanhood has become a fight for reality over fantasy.

If viewers see mainly aggressive, deluded transgender activists railing against calm, rational and reasonable gender-critical feminists, then the activists have only themselves to blame. One in which the powers-that-be punish not only the expression of certain beliefs and ideas, but also the expression of fact itself.

Organisers of this attempted coup claim that the Hungarian government has violated certain norms and the rule of law, and therefore cannot be trusted. Right now, senior officials at the Cabinet Office will be managing the fallout of this letter, along with the Covid inquiry imbroglio, rather than fixing the stuff that matters to ordinary people beset by real-life problems. They discuss the witch-hunting of Graham Linehan, the ridiculous regulation of takeaway pints, and the mad plan to reintroduce wolves to the English countryside.

Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, a French Green MEP who helped draw up the resolution, has admitted that ‘official texts from the treaties are not very talkative about what we can or cannot do. The European Parliament has long been committed to cutting Hungary and its prime minister, Viktor Orbán, down to size. Then this morning, in a newspaper report on a new landmark study from Johns Hopkins University, we see the headline: ‘Lockdown benefits “a drop in the bucket compared to the costs”.

Serwotka’s ‘revelations’ seem to suggest that we have the worst of all worlds just 14 months out from a General Election – a politicised civil service mired in divisive identity politics. Speak the truth about a person’s past – that Caitlyn Jenner was once Bruce, a runner; that Elliot Page was once Ellen, an actress – and you’ll be denounced as a ‘deadnamer’, the unholiest of heretics. Through showing rather than telling, Channel 4 allows viewers a rare glimpse of the intimidation and dishonesty at the heart of the gender wars. Over the course of an hour, we hear different perspectives on ‘one of the most polarising issues of our times’. We need to talk about how we arrived at a situation where the armed wing of the state lectures and rebukes people for giving voice to proveable, measurable truth.The delusions of the elites carry more weight than truth itself – that is how arrogant the new authoritarianism has become; how determined our rulers are to remake reality in the image of their own fevered opinion. They may smile sweetly while raising this question, but a group of Scottish women’s rights campaigners reminds us that they are really asking women to allow men into all the places where they are most vulnerable. Activists assume that frequent repetition of this mantra will make people forget about biological facts.