Every new British lawmaker is required to take one obligatory course. Can you guess what it is about? How to move an amendment, maybe? Correct etiquette in the chamber? The proper registration of your financial interests? Election law?

Of course not. The sole mandatory training course is called “Valuing Everyone Equally.” That doesn’t really surprise you, does it? Identity politics has been sacralized, lifted out of the realm of reasoned debate, and turned into a question of faith. We are expected to invoke “diversity” as a prelude to anything we say — a bit like those Muslims who preface every statement with, “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”