Nothing better illustrates the state we are in than the fact that this summer the country’s most convincing democrat is a pseudo-aristocrat cosplaying as a receptacle for household waste. Count Binface — the nom de guerre of the comedy writer Jonathan David Harvey — is likely to be Nigel Farage’s only opponent of consequence in Clacton. This was never part of the joke. Harvey has stood against each incumbent prime minister and London mayor since 2017. Like the licensed fool of old, Binface existed to puncture pretension from the safety of the margins, his purpose corrective rather than competitive. Yet in Clacton, the fool finds himself inheriting the responsibilities of a ruling class missing in action. Binface is the establishment. Après Binface: le déluge. The popular misconception is t