Like any good student of American politics, I watched last week’s attack on the Capitol building unfurl with a mixture of shock and disbelief. This was not simply a protest, this was an attempted coup. The pictures from inside the under siege building were worth a thousand words, as what looked like a load of Sons of Anarchy extras (including a dude in a sweatshirt extoling the virtues of Auschwitz and another dressed like the guy from Jamiroquai) trashed the joint. If, like me, you have Metal running through your veins then there was a certain familiar face that made collective jaws drop.

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