Used to work with O'Flynn on a regional newspaper way back when and went to his wedding. He seemed a decent sort, so no idea when he fell down a rabbit hole.
For a time he came across well when interviewed too - was never really aligned with him politically, but could respect the way he spoke and delivered his points. Seemed to drift slowly further and further off into Posters Madness though.
Pearson is just a lunatic.
one of the many disservice the Tory press has done to its party and to itself is convincing each other that, just because the public think the left are weirdos, that means they haven't noticed how fucking weird the right are.
Hardly, nobody ever voted for those. The BNP never got an MP, or the National Front or even Moseley's blackshirts.
Unless you think the Tories are "far right" which is mental.