My shame of the week award goes to Zack Polanski. Not for being the Green Party’s Jewish leader who has embraced the most extreme anti-Israel politics in British public life, and helped stir the antisemitism now running through the country. That was already shameful enough. This week he hit a new low. The Daily Mail caught him out on his own family story. He told the Green Party conference, and a BBC Question Time audience, that his ancestors fled pogroms, ended up in Poland, “faced the Nazis,” and then arrived in England. Records show all four of his grandparents were born in northern England between 1916 and 1934. His great-grandparents were already here, long before Hitler invaded Poland. Borrowing a Holocaust flight for his own family story is an outrageous lie. There is something certifiably off-kilter about a man who does this.