Why they raged at JD Vance

European politicians were so enraged by JD Vance’s speech in Munich last Friday .

They simply weren’t used to being told the honest, awful truth or being obliged to hear it.

For decades , the big players in European politics could brush aside accusations that they had become authoritarian, undemocratic and censorious by dismissing such claims as the ravings of xenophobic and populist cranks.

This time there was no excuse or escape. In Munich , they had no option but to listen to the vice-president of the most powerful country tell them that censoring their citizens and cancelling elections are not the kinds of things the good guys’ are meant to do.

The BAFTAs had barely been on for two minutes before host David Tennant began issuing smug reflections on the return to power of Donald Trump .

But the kind of robotic grandstanding we saw from Tennant is precisely what most of us now expect from actors.

Arts and entertainment have been among the biggest casualties of the Great Awokening of 2016 .