George Monbiot has gone to war. Some readers may know this fellow by his nickname ‘Moonbat’ – he’s a Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and sometime bugbear of my colleagues on this magazine. But I think his casus belli, here, crosses the ideological battle-lines.

He is in a righteous rage because, a full four months after the death of his mother, Vodafone was refusing to cancel her mobile phone contract.