Can Britain handle Milo Yiannopoulos?

In 2017, addressing the fallout from remarks in which he appeared to condone pedophilic relationships between older men and boys, Milo Yiannopoulos held a press conference in New York. Making a ham-fisted attempt to turn the outrage back on his critics, the alt-Right’s defrocked pantomime dame said of sexual abuse: “It’s not the worst thing that’s ever going to happen to you. Going bankrupt is worse.” One wonders where this no-holds-barred provocateur, who in his pomp was both the engine and the product of the caustic, hyper-online alt-Right, would place “being deported” on his curious sliding scale of personal tragedy. For that is how Yiannopoulos’s time in America has come to its sordid end, after ICE agents arrested him at an airport in New Orleans on Thursday. It transpired that the fo