As I check in with The Guardian nearly every day, I find myself keeping a private tally of the top headlines of the year which could only have appeared in The Guardian and which thus make it the lovable home of what was once called the loony left but now, in the age of Jeremy Corbyn, I suppose must be called the left tout court. A few weeks ago the paper ran one that has to be a contender for top headline of this year, if not of all time: “A moment that changed me—my husband fell in love with a bonobo.” That will certainly take some beating, though I would be sorry not to be able to give some kind of runner-up notice to “Cops ignore me because I have light skin. That just reaffirms their racism” or “I work at the US Senate. I shouldn’t have to dance at strip clubs to feed my son” or “Do you applaud Caitlyn Jenner because she is brave, or because she’s pretty?”—or, the previous occupant of the top slot of the year before it was deposed by the bonobo lady, “It’s time to stop misgendering trans murder victims.”

You think being murdered is bad? Just try being misgendered as well! But there also ought to be a prize for the provider of the most consistently self-parodying material, and that would have to go to the American feminist Jessica Valenti, who appears on the “Comment is Free” page