A message from Spectator and Times columnist Hugo Rifkind: you're all scum.

The Spectator's resident whimsyist Hugo Rifkind has written many silly pieces in the last few months, mostly on climate change, but his latest surely takes the soggy biscuit.

"I'm not saying anyone who ever posts an internet comment is nuts…." it's titled. Rifkind spends the rest of his essay, of course, saying pretty much exactly that.

It is, I think I can safely promise, one of the most deliciously annoying and wrong-in-every-way pieces you will read all year.

There is snobbery and arrogance, ...