It is a fundamental trait of British Leftism that People of Colour are victims, not perpetrators. It’s why, whenever another attack takes place, the Left is just itching to attribute blame to the (white) victims – their government must have exploited Muslim lands or taken part in an “illegal” invasion. They fall just short of saying “serves them right”, although Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite campaigning organisation, Stop The War, came close to saying exactly that (the victims had “reaped the whirlwind of Western foreign policy”) following the attacks on Paris in November 2015.

Yes, Left wing columnists will condemn the attack, but many resist going that extra step and bring the same level of analysis to the motivations of the Barcelona terrorists as they did to the marchers at Charlottesville. They will not condemn Islamism or even concede that such an ideology is anything to do with Islam itself.

And once more, just as the British public need no convincing about the common religious and cultural motivations of child rape gangs in British cities, so they are ahead of the Left – and the Labour Party in particular – in recognising the religious motivations of Isil and those who follow them. This does not make them racist or Islamophobic – it just means they are able to read and to draw logical conclusions.