Mr Idema, it emerged yesterday, has a colourful past. A volatile former Green Beret with a criminal record in the US, he describes himself as a security adviser. He also claims that he is the person on whom George Clooney’s part in the Hollywood film The Peacemaker was based.

A weird story just got weirder – not only does he claim that the lead character in “The Peacemaker” was based on him or his exploits, he’s the guy that threatened to punch out Geraldo Rivera in the early days of th Afghan war over Rivera’s reportage.

Besides which, has he looked in a mirror lately? He can’t be thinking that George Clooney was cast because of any kind of resemblance, whether or not his claim that the story was about him is true.

But given Idema’s history, I’d say it’s not, and he’s living in a dangerous fantasyland that’s partly set in the real world and partly in his own head.