You just think: are we Iran? But even Iran doesn’t televise its executions. In the hours after his murder we were exposed to: fat, tattooed trans people describing him as “a literal nazi”; teachers saying “I’m glad he’s dead”; someone on Good Morning Britain — Good Morning Britain! — comparing him to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. We saw Nadiya Hussain, the resentful woman from Bake Off, reposting an attack misrepresenting Kirk as a “vocal Islamophobe and bigot who glorified violence” and demanding to know why we weren’t mourning the dead children in Gaza (can’t we do both?)....