During the lockdown, I made a small donation to the Royal Academy (RA) by waiving a refund for tickets to a cancelled exhibition. I was thinking this week of demanding the money back in outrage over the RA’s treatment of the artist Jess De Wahls, the latest victim of bullying by transgender activists.

Why is it so difficult to cancel a service in Kafkaesque modern Britain?
Companies like Virgin Media treat us like we’ve been chained to a radiator.