Like an old man yelling at the clouds, the now ex-chairman of the Conservative Party, Oliver Dowden, has managed to pick a fight with an exhausting number of inanimate objects, concepts and organisations.
In his time as culture secretary, he denounced the National Trust, the BBC, the cricket, pronouns, young people, social media, schools, universities and museums, to name just a few. Indeed, Dowden has long been warrior-in-chief of the government’s divisive culture battle. Stoking divisions for electoral gain has fast become the Tories’ bread and butter – which, as culture secretary, presumably made Dowden their head baker.
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