Caroline Fourest does a great job debunking the spineless – and vaguely racist – Anglo-Saxon insinuation that, well, the French don’t treat their immigrants aright and there’s something deeply dodgy about French culture. That she has to defend Charlie Hebdo as an anti-racist, leftist paper is almost beside the point: she only has to do it because huge elements of our anglophone left and the mainstream fail to defend the principle. Whatever CH’s politics, the terrorists are to blame. And she was much too polite about Corbyn: she’s gone after him before, and rightly so.

We need more linguists like her: people who can speak French and English showing that we are saying the same things.

The woman’s a hero.