In your face, politics

Paddy Power took to Twitter last week to promote Paddypowerslapelection.com, a site on which users can virtually “slap” the likes of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn with a wet fish. Diary couldn’t help wondering where the bookmaker got the idea from. In 2010, Albion’s Slapometer.com enabled visitors to abuse David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg by a similar slapping method – albeit with a virtual hand.