24 June 2014updated 09 Jun 2021 10:19am

Louise Mensch: trollier than thou

All other trolls go home.

(Photo By Louise Mensch. Photograph: Getty Images)

But what, we hear you cry, does Louise Mensch think of today’s phone-hacking verdict? Fear not, for she’s told us.

I cannot wait to work with Rebekah Brooks I hope I get the opportunity very soon. Literally could not be happier #HackingTrial

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 24, 2014

Coulson was the finest communications director the Tories had in the modern age. I don’t believe him guilty, either.

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THANK YOU

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 24, 2014

I wish I could say that Andy Coulson was my friend. I do say that I always admired him, I admire him now, I hope to work with him one day

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 24, 2014

Andy #Coulson is an incredible talent and I hope I have the honour to know him one day. Much respect to @piersmorgan for his tweet.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 24, 2014

Piers Morgan’s contribution was positively disappointing by comparison.

So happy for my friends Rebekah and Charlie, so sad for my friend Andy. A good man, who I will always support. #hackingverdicts

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 24, 2014

There are two possibilities here. One is that Ms Mensch is in very real danger of turning into a Daily Mash parody of herself.

The other is that she is, in fact, trolling us. That this is the greatest act of trolling the world has ever seen. That Ms Mensch is the queen of the trolls, and all other trolls can give up and go home.

Please, Fox News, give her that job. You can’t say she hasn’t earned it.