Raja Miah is wearing his pyjamas. This humble set, a cotton-polyester mix from M&S, stands in stark contrast to the Marc Jacobs PJs worn by the figure whose image has been on Miah’s screen for the past 10 minutes, and the subject of great jest for many of the 3,000 people in the comments section of Miah’s livestream: his long-time bête noire and my boss, Mill founder Joshi Herrmann.
Here, Miah, the rabble-rouser whose tireless blogging and live-streaming about an alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse by Oldham’s Labour politicians has formed the backdrop to much of the borough’s politics for the past half-decade, is dabbling in visual metaphor. He’s donned his grey set to show his fans he stands apart from the silk-PJ wearing “elites” he’s been fighting (Joshi wore the Marc Jacobs pyjamas as part of a Red Nose Day-themed piece in the Evening Standard in 2013, a fact Miah has got huge mileage from since we published a series of critical pieces about his unproven claims, including the impressively Trumpian epithet “pyjama boy” or the Withnail-redolent “pyjama ponce”).
Later in the video, Miah barks: “Where are you now, Joshi Boy?”.
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