The wishy washy Tories got their noses bloodied but good last night in British local elections, courtesy of the knuckles of UKIP, which had a spectacular showing. A few days back, a Conservative Party leader was publicly trashing UKIP as a bunch of clowns. Yesterday the voters decided David Cameron was going to wear the rubber nose.

Some analyses: The Telegraph’s Tim Stanley explains the UKIP Revolution, James Delinpole says we are “Living in the age of Farage,” and James Kirkup uncovers an (imaginary) Conservative apology to UKIP’s “swivel-eyed nut-jobs.”