Joe Mellor

“This is how you do #reparations,” playwright Bonnie Greer tweeted.

'Brilliant squared,' tweeted one fan of the clip.

In a textbook example of how misinformation can travel faster than star Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the social media storm surrounding the Tokyo Olympics’ alleged “anti-sex beds” pulled in news outlets and Olympians alike.

Mr Yousaf said the nursery said there was no place available for his two-year-old daughter – only to offer a place to the child of a white friend.

'My god. Absolutely buried by 10:30am on a Sunday morning,' wrote one Twitter user.

Tongan Princess Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili said:“We are grateful to your government for making the right decision to apologise. To right the extreme, inhumane, racist and unjust treatment, specifically against my community, in the Dawn Raids era.”

Unfortunately, data from the Road Haulage Association seems to point to a different reason for the lack of drivers.

“The way that Boris Johnson and his friends operate seems to be not about what is right but what they can get away with, blurring the boundaries between public and private life."

"Whenever I think that I’ve now seen it all when it comes to the Home Office, there is a new low. This one is particularly low though," Tweeted Prof Tanja Bueltmann.