It’s a depressing reality that the witheringly accurate assessment of how so many of our public services have been captured by the “race industry” had to come from someone who is black. That it came from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch should be no surprise however, as her surefootedness increases.

She nailed it again last week when she reminded us some of the most recent killings that have shocked the nation “could have been stopped if people had intervened instead of having a fear of being racist”.

In the case of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, security guards had concerns about the bomber who was of Libyan heritage but were “afraid of being accused of racial profiling”, said Mrs Badenoch.

So they did nothing.

Some 22 concertgoers, including 16 children, were killed and more than 1,000 were injured.

More recently, the killings at a dance class in Southport in 2024 could also have been prevented if, said Mrs Badenoch, “the killer’s headteacher hadn’t been accused of racial stereotyping when she raised concerns about him bringing a knife into school”.

Three young girls were killed in that attack, and eight others injured.

And she said the killings in 2023 in Nottingham would have been avoided “if authorities weren’t concerned that black people were over-represented in mental health units”.

Two university students and a school caretaker lost their lives.

Bravely Mrs Badenoch didn’t stop there, as she also referenced the thousands of girls – thought to be around 4,000 – who have been victims of grooming gangs which were chiefly, but not exclusively, men of Pakistani origin.

“We would not have had so many girls abused by rape gangs if local authorities had not looked away because they were too scared to point out the obvious.”

She added that public bodies had “spent so long worrying about institutional racism that they have become institutionally incompetent”.

While solutions were a little limited, one that did hit home concerned the controversial police tactic of stop and search, the very mention of which instantly excites hand-wringing and nervous gulps from liberal do-gooders – the very people who have lauded, ushered in and allowed this insane submission to fatally misguided priorities to flourish in the first place.

“We should stop and search more, it saves young men’s lives,” she said.

“Black men are killing each other – they’re not going to look for other people from communities to kill.”

Too many politicians tie themselves in verbal knots as they do everything possible to avoid being seen as anything other than fully signed-up fans of this preposterous, sometimes fatal, way of thinking.

Never forget, Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Opposition, and his then-deputy Angela Rayner taking the knee and a minute’s silence being held in both the Houses of Lords and Commons after someone had been killed thousands of miles away in an American city precious few of them had probably ever visited and many would struggle to find on a map.

All of which made the Badenoch blast so refreshing.