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2019: what a time to be alive, when you can enjoy headlines like "Nigel Farage 'trapped on Brexit bus by people armed with milkshakes'".

Even before Farage's milkshaking in Newcastle (my people did me proud), the New Statesman's Anoosh Chakelian wrote a piece explaining how a simple drink "became a tool of protest". Of the academics she spoke to, Dr Benjamin Franks pointed out the relative convenience and also the maximum amount of mess and embarrassment a milkshake can cause, but noted that the weaponisation of a drink that had previously failed to arouse suspicion has now made people on the far right very wary. Meanwhile, Dr Ivan Gololobov sees lobbing a milkshake "as a 'highly captivating non-violent alternative' to a punch", a valuable form of direct action.

I particularly enjoy the way in which the alt-right's adoption of milk as a symbol of racial purity and white supremacy is being chucked back in their faces. However, it's unlikely that the choice of weapon has been deliberate - on the contrary, it's simply a case of resourceful members of the public making use of what came to hand.

(I can't take credit for that title - it's all Twitter user Gavin Curnow's.)