"Do you display the flag" is such a political journalists' question. Memeable, picturable, immediately divisive, miles away from anything anybody normal talks about and, crucially, requires you to understand absolutely nothing about the country, your interview subject, or any policy area.
The most surprising bit of the whole nasty asylum hotels affair is not "Nigel Farage makes hay with controversial legal issue", or "the government is tied up in knots", or "the internet promotes bile" but just how degraded our media have become
And believe me I did not enter this summer an optimist on that particular issue