Most days, my job entails a lot of scrolling through social media channels, looking at endless news stories, hot takes, memes and gifs, many of which now relate to the rapid unravelling of the UK over Brexit.

I sometimes wonder what it might have been like to have tools like Facebook and Twitter at our disposal during other major moments in this country’s political history: the Battle of Hastings, the Cromwell era or the Second World War.

Oddly, we’d probably have done a lot less arguing about Churchill, but were the major upheavals experienced by our ancestors really this boring? Would we really have found as much incompetence and buffoonery at which to despair?