Don't be distracted by Conservative culture wars. They're trying to make us forget

Tory attacks on trans rights and non-crime hate incidents are a curtain. Behind it, the house is on fire.

Kemi Badenoch launches the Conservatives local election campaign Pic: Elliot Wright / CCHQ

Culture wars this, culture wars that. If you thought the Conservatives were ready to become a serious party, think again.

This week, on the anniversary of Stephen Lawrence’s murder, a landmark moment in Britain’s reckoning with institutional racism, the Tories chose…