Nor did liberals have to go to war quite as frequently as they have. They fussed over Iraq, but signed up enthusiastically for operations in Afghanistan, Mali, Libya and Syria. There’s no denying that the West’s targets in these wars were wicked, but the consequences of bombing and invading have not been peace or women’s liberation but the extension of radical Islamism and the creation of millions of refugees.

Liberals might have been able to make a sound moral case for taking said refugees if they had not embraced – unnecessarily – mass economic migration. Labour’s decision in 2004 to open the British labour market early to eastern Europe was unilateral. It did not have to be done. The result was a growing perception that immigration has a negative effect upon wages and public services, fuelling a backlash against open borders that is now felt most harshly by asylum seekers. Worse: many people now regard immigration as a conspiracy by liberal elites – who will not acknowledge its effects and who charge its critics with racism – to change the country by stealth. Liberal snobbery has done as much to poison the migration debate as nationalism ever did.