Exactly as we saw with Corbyn.

Yes, the media is biased and serving the interests of their owners.

As a political group we bang on and on about material conditions, but we sure do love to pretend that we're operating on a fair and level playing field, and then feign surprise and outrage.

Is it fair that anyone to the left of Ghenis Khan is pilloried? No, of course it isn't. But it frustrates me beyond belief that we refuse to learn that lesson.

We need to get past this idea that any individual is bigger than the movement. Like Corbyn before him, Polanski is both being unfairly targeted, and also giving easy hits by having said demonstrably dumb and/or false stuff.

Remember, this is the same media who crucified Ed Miliband, the atheist son of Jewish parents, over looking weird in a single photo while eating a bacon sandwich. And the same media who were beside themselves at Starmer (foolishly) accepting clothes and glasses, and yet are very quiet about Farage's £5m bung.

The deck is stacked against us. We have to stop pretending it isn't, and a big part of that is ruthlessly binning prominent people who make dumb mistakes. That's sure as fuck unreasonable and unfair, but the alternative is continuing to damage progress.

It also means that when we are in power, we resist the urge to claw the fuck out of each other and be divided, which only benefits those with entrenched power and privilege.