The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.

The former Australian prime minister John Howard has said Donald Trump penned a lengthy “political suicide note” with his “terrible” handling of the coronavirus pandemic, without which the Republican would have prevailed against Joe Biden.

This nonsense won’t do for me, you know; if you want a skulk, you had better pack off back to the house.

My voice was terser than I intended, but what the hell. The night was turning out to be interesting in some ways and extremely frustrating in others.