There are many political and ideological dividing lines in British life, but perhaps the deepest, and most damaging, is that which was on show here - when one part of the population rejects the others' view of reality.
'I smell a virgin…' Katie Hopkins said, looking straight at me. 'I smell lefty, pressy scum!' The far-right commentator was addressing an audience of 500 people in a soggy tent in a rural corner of North West England. I was standing at the back but that didn't stop her singling me out. The crowd theatrically booed me, as if I was a pantomime villain. I blushed.
They relished the chance to set me - the embodiment of the loathed mainstream media - straight. Behind much of their thinking, it seemed, was strong emotion. Not least for Theresa. Her father moved into a care home just weeks before lockdown, something she only mentioned after we had been talking for more than an hour. 'It wasn't nice to go and visit your father and see him through the glass,' she said, tearfully.
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