Labour MP Dawn Butler’s attack on the new Conservative leader, 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. Her rhetoric over the years – and her infamous retweet last weekend, suggesting that electing a black woman as leader of a right-wing party in a white-majority country represents the epitome of white supremacy – might have appeared deranged to the rest of us. But it was entirely in keeping with a certain unthinking, obsessive, monomaniacal mindset.
