How was Kanye West allowed to air his far-right views for so long? | Emma Brockes

Ye's actions are straight out of Trump's playbook of chaos. But online trolling all too often has real-world consequences

If there has been a single enjoyable aspect to the initially sad, latterly alarming downfall of Ye, the rapper and mogul formerly known as Kanye West, it has been the sound of screeching tyres this week as successive associates understood - finally - that supporting him wasn't in their interests, and slammed on the brakes.

Without Ye and his frothing antisemitism, we might have been denied a trot around the little known origins of Adidas, official sports shoe of the German Olympics team in 1936, and, until Tuesday, one of Ye's many lucrative sponsors.