Ronson is a leftie journalist whose main home is the Grauniad, and this piece was originally published in the Grauniad. His standard technique is to interview people who’re deeply unsettling and weird (ranging from the KKK through to Islamist terrorists) in such a way that they’re humanised; not to apologise for or excuse them, but to move away from the Evil Demon Monster!!!! labelling that publications like the Daily Wail usually prefer, towards understanding what people who do or want to do terrible things *actually* think, feel and are motivated by.

The fact that the piece was later picked up by the Daily Mail is a brilliant piece of accidental point-missing by the DM’s editors, with an interestingly subversive effect…