Credit, first, where it’s due. As with so many celebrated public nuisances, from David Starkey and Jacob Rees-Mogg to Nigel Farage and the wider Boris Johnson family, it was the BBC that first identified Laurence Fox’s potential to cheapen public life.
The instincts that just got Fox dispensed with by GB News – for reducing a woman to the sum (zero) of his sexual interest – are those that, once showcased on BBC One’s Question Time, revealed him as the natural choice, as guest or presenter, for any proudly feral television channel.
