Forty days and 40 nights? Alas, it appears that the downpour of sectarian bigotry that’s begun as it become clearer and clearer Dominic Perrottet will be the next premier of New South Wales is likely to last much longer.

As might be expected, The Sydney Morning Herald has distinguished itself with the sheer shrillness and silliness in its exercise in intolerance — all in the name of tolerance, you understand — this morning.