Politics has been colonised by fanatics and bores

Labour MP Dawn Butler ’s attack on Kemi Badenoch might have been demented, but it wasn’t surprising.

Butler is a figure immersed in a simplistic ideology derived from critical race theory, which insists that everything can be explained in terms of race.

This kind of monomania is rife among anti-Israeli fanatics, who also employ simplistic and unfounded hyperbole in their repetitious rhetoric.

Nigerian Britons have arrived in earnest, with their own brand of free thinking and outspokenness.

The term black Britons ’ is useful only up to a point, says Patrick West .

Nigerians who have settled here tend to be from the Christian part of the country, and they are often deeply conservative by temperament.