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The test is much like the ones that Viz used to send up, asking for instance: ‘Are you a Toff or a Tramp?’ Except Westminster’s privilege checklist is even less scientific. Add five points if you answer in the affirmative that your ‘parents or guardians read to me when I was a child’, ‘English is my first language’ or ‘I drive a new car’. Add 15 points if you respond, ‘I am a white male’. Minus five if: ‘I see members of my race, ethnic group, gender… negatively portrayed on TV.’

The whole thing is nonsense. It’s no surprise to discover that Stuart Love is himself a white man, originally from South Africa, a country with a far greater legacy of racism than Britain. This initiative reeks of white liberal guilt, as does the notion of ‘white privilege’ in its entirety. It is the product of a white overclass desperate to boast its moral superiority through attention-seeking performances of self-flagellation.