It is fascinating to see how, in the space of a few weeks Prime Minister’s Questions has turned from a pathetic, sub-primary school name calling exercise into a rather different beast.

By the simple expedient of refusing to play the game and asking real questions from real voters Jeremy Corbyn has turned the tables on the Tories in spectacular style and they do not like it one bit.

Cameron had an easy ride up till now.

Denis Healey famously described being attacked by Geoffrey Howe in the commons as akin to being savaged by a dead sheep. Applying that formula, being criticised by Ed Miliband must have been like having a backbone contest with a sea anemone.

But not any more.

It was a stroke of genius on Corbyn’s part. Cameron can’t sneeringly dismiss the questions because they come directly from the electorate.

Oh, they still try, of course, and the sight of the serried ranks of Tories jeering and laughing about questions on homelessness and poverty merely show them in their true light as boorish thugs with no interest in protecting the interests of those they profess to serve but in fact actively despise.

Cameron ducked direct questions on the Tories’ draconian slashing of tax ccredits six times on Wednesday.

With nowhere else to go he resorted to his one true talent, that of being the Flashman-style bully.

Cameron may have thought he had landed a knockout blow with his purloined line about Labour being the unelected led by the unelectable this week but as usual and ironically for an arch Tory he does not know his history.

Many of you, like this column, will have taken barely a split second to deduce the provenance of his bastardised remark and it was hilariously funny — when Oscar Wilde said it.

Wilde however deployed his wit at a rather different target — the English upper classes and fox hunting, which in his usual pithy style he denounced as the “unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”

Now who does that remind you of...?

Basically he could have been talking about Cameron and his loathsome chums in the Chipping Norton set.

Braying hooray Henrys and Henriettas whose idea of a day’s entertainment is to get boozed up and gallop around the countryside attempting to tear small animals to pieces.

On a slightly different yet related matter, fans of aphorisms will no doubt recall another immortal line from the pen of St Oscar on his conviction and incarceration in Reading gaol for the “crime” of homosexuality.

When informed he would be detained at her majesty’s pleasure Wilde quipped, “If this is how Queen Victoria treats her prisoners she doesn’t deserve to have any.”

Over a century later and the same comment could be applied to the current palace-dwelling parasite.

Most of the country’s gaols are not much different than they were in the Victorian era. Monoliths to desperation and despair.

The government’s own figures, published this week, show that fatalities and self-inflicted deaths in custody were at a 10-year high with no sign whatsoever that the government gives a toss.

Labour peer Lord Harris, who published a report on suicides by prisoners aged 18-24 in July, accused the government of not having the will to take action to tackle the serious issue, saying his report had been met with total silence.

Not content to plagiarise their lines from others they also appear to have adopted the approach of the three wise monkeys when it comes to any form of criticism of their blatantly unlawful policies.

And finally, and I do mean finally, speaking of unlawful policies and wrongful detention yesterday saw the long overdue return of British resident Shaker Aamer to his family in London after 13 years of abuse and torture without charge or trial in Guantanamo.

Aamer, a wholly innocent man, was kidnapped while doing charity work, sold for a bounty to the US and then held at Bagram airbase before being transferred to Guantanamo.

Despite having been twice cleared for release by the US administration Aamer continued to be held in solitary confinement for long periods and suffer regular beatings and torture at the US gulag.

He was forced to engage in a series of hunger strikes to highlight his plight and his physical and mental health have drastically deteriorated as a result of his brutal incarceration.

The British state will no doubt claim credit for his long-overdue release, conveniently forgetting that Britain was actively complicit in the rendition, abuse and torture of Aamer and other British residents in total breach of international law.

The fact of Aamer’s return is a cause for celebration and relief but Britain’s role in his ordeal is a further stain on the dubious honour of this country and must not be allowed to be swept under the carpet.

The real heroes here are Aamer himself, his long-suffering family, his dedicated lawyers and the indefatigable campaigners who have fought so hard to secure this moment. Not successive British governments who should hang their heads in shame.