Barry Stanton is a proud father of five. Frowning deeply from the circular confines of his Twitter profile picture, Barry looks the epitome of the word “bloke”. Aged somewhere over 50 and somewhere under 80, the Blackpool resident seems to have set up his Twitter profile for one simple reason: to be as racist and as ignorant as humanely possible.

“Why do black people think comedy is just loud people shouting?” was one of his first tweets, less than two weeks ago, to minimal reaction. After professing his support for Brexit (“means BREXIT”) and describing London as “like the Congo”, Barry hit viral gold. “when i go to london i want to see BRITISH people speaking ENGLISH, not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ somalis speaking hijabi,” he wrote on 21 November, to over 2,700 retweets and nearly 3,000 likes. Just a day later, he did it again. In a tweet that was retweeted nearly 3,000 times and liked over 4,000, he wrote: “just picked my lad up from school. he tells me he was forced to read the korma in religion class. bloody outrage”.