Through a Ulez camera, I spy the vandal who chopped down Laurence Fox’s career. It looks a lot like him

‘Laurence defo looks like he had the Blade Runner director’s-cut poster on his wall at Harrow.’ Laurence Fox in Forest Hill, south London, protesting against a drag queen storytelling event, 30 September 2023. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Of all the buzz-phrases of 2023, the description of anti-Ulez-camera vandals as “blade runners” provokes the biggest eyeroll. Are you aware of this? People who chop down Ulez cameras because they disagree with the clean-air scheme have styled themselves “blade runners” – and a lot of the news media has simply gone along with it and started using it in coverage.

Sorry, but no. I’m looking at a picture of Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, and I’m looking at a picture of a bloke hanging off a lamp-post in a black balaclava and a straining Boohoo jacket, and I’m simply NOT going to demean the iconic Rick Deckard by asking: who wore it better? Having said all that, I did enjoy a recent interview with one of the camera vandals, in which he explained: “We are like a pack of lone wolves. We sometimes work together.”