This election is exposing the contentious issues dividing us: Brexit, antisemitism, how the state should be run, who needs more of society’s resources and who should pay. The choices may feel inadequate, the people and parties offering them horribly flawed, but at least the discussions are happening.

They are vital because politics is where power is decided. Our arguments deal with the agonising, elemental questions of identity, human dignity, rights and respect.

Except in one key area. One of the biggest social shifts in a generation is taking place with almost no political discussion, because all the main parties — Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and SNP — have largely surrendered to one side of the argument before public debate has even begun. The effect of