This is my article published in yesterday’s The Sunday Times. I handed this in before the Friday deadline. Of course, the people’s interest, and mine was elsewhere by Saturday when we were told by the government it was getting ready to tell us what it wanted us to know about Egrant and so on.

But this remains an important subject and when all the storms that feel so great right now pass as inevitably they must, the deeper epoch-making issues of our time remain.

I wrote about how we justify our racism yesterday.