That was a grim week for British politics. Making an unspeakable tragedy in the Middle East about ourselves takes some doing, but the Commons managed it. Worse, some politicians, rather than recognising the danger of this type of division, have sought to weaponise it.

In Friday’s Telegraph, Suella Braverman declared Britain was “sleepwalking into a ghettoised society”, arguing that ours is not a country “where different faiths and races [coexist]” peacefully. Her words imply Britain is ever more segregated, but is that........

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