[Andy McDandy]

It's not even that he's barred from the islands. Turns out he couldn't sail there because the boat wasn't allowed to carry passengers.

[satnav]

Since December when Farage was accused of making racist and anti-semitic remarks at school he does seem to have taken more of a backseat. Zia Yusuf has done a lot more of the media stuff on Newsnight and Question Time. Last week we had the naff Shadow Cabinet nonsense which will presumably mean that Jenrick and Baverman will now do more media work pushing new Reform policy positions. There have also been rumours recently that Farage has taken out at least one super injunction. So what could be possibly be trying to hide?

[kreuzberger]

On the Googles, his assault on the beaches of the Chagos looks to be just shy of 1000km from the Maldives.

If Farage wanted to sail there, he could have reckoned with perhaps 8 knots in anything under about a 50-footer, so we are looking at some three days under sail, presuming they just kept on battering through with a constant Beaufort 4 which is anything but guaranteed.

It might just be that this is another of his grand, grifty lies which is easily demolished in a matter of seconds.