Stats 101. There’s a new fun game doing the rounds: how crap will Jennifer Oriel’s column be this week? The Oz’s new resident kultur-warrior wowed the crowd a fortnight ago when she claimed that Robert Menzies had successfully banned the Communist Party 65 years ago (his failure to do so was one of the most important events in modern Australian history). Earlier efforts on Marcuse and “neo-Marxism” suggested that, ideas-wise, she was still in the remedial stream.

This week she does not disappoint, penning a love letter to … Donald Trump. How August 2015! Apparently his 41% rating among the 25% of the population who identify as Republicans means he has won the “silent majority”. I thought it meant he had won 10.25% of the population. But the maths gets worse: “And despite media portrayals of Trump supporters as rednecks a Rasmussen poll showed a majority of Americans [46%] support a temporary ban on Muslim immigration …”

Not sure where Oriel went to school, but sounds like the neo-Marxists got to the maths department first and replaced it with Stalinist Jazz Ballet for Diversity 101. Forty-six per cent is many things — a plurality, a “highest number of” — but it ain’t a majority. Someone in the office explain. Meanwhile, we look forward to Oriel’s column in 2016. Fortnightly, right? So that’s how many columns, Jennifer? Thirty-seven? Six? 2129? You say.