In some ways, it’s not fair dragging on intellectual lightweights like Quiggin. It’s like agreeing to an MMA fight with a four-year-old. It’s just pitiful and awful rather than exciting or invigorating.

Still, people look up to Quiggin as some sort of erudite exemplar so what it’s more like is a four-year-old wearing a very convincing Connor McGregor suit, which when you kick this simulacrum with the weapons of wisdom and comprehension, the suit dissolves as you realize you’ve drop-kicked a defenseless child into the next dimension.