‘Gary Barlow’s massive son’ has saved us from Trump misery

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He’s head and shoulders above his dad, and is thought to be 6’ 2” tall compared to Gary’s more petite 5’ 8”, and the height difference really brought out the best in X users, who filled their feeds with photographs of Barlow senior with tremendous captions. A photo of Gary in front of a red carpet banner with an Argyll print was captioned: “Gary Barlow standing in front of his son’s new cardigan.” One of Gary being showered with golden confetti said: “Gary Barlow standing next to his son eating a croissant.” Dan Barlow has been the palate cleanser that we needed The jokes weren’t just visual. One user simply wrote “Gary Barlow and Gary Barhigh”, and it seemed that X had gone back to its origins as Twitter all over again, when it was largely users making stupid jokes, and not telling their political opponents to eff off, or calling them any combination of “rancid”, “thick”, “moron” and other words I’m too polite to mention here. Once you’re done looking at pictures of “Gary Barlow’s massive son” – I don’t make up the most popular search terms, people… – there’s Bear Grylls’s giant offspring, 18-year-old Marmaduke.