It wasn’t always like this. The British right was once respectable. It might have been objectionable or wrong in any number of ways, but it was at least sane. It had standards. Now, God knows what it is. God knows what it is becoming.

We are in a moment of acute danger. We’re facing a sustained assault by Elon Musk: an extremely powerful foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. And instead of opposing it, instead of showing the slightest trace-element of patriotism or moral decency, British conservatives are siding with the aggressor. They are taking his lunatic extremism, tidying it up, scrubbing it down, and making it respectable.

Nearly every aspect of Musk’s commentary in recent days has been false. He claims that the story of grooming gangs has been covered up. This is not true. It has been reported extensively for years. He claims Starmer failed to address it. This is not true. Starmer used his time as director of public prosecutions to pursue offenders. “I want to put the record straight on this,” Andrew Norfolk, the investigative reporter who did so much to originally uncover the story, said recently. “It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible.”

Musk claims it is about protecting women. This is not true. Jess Phillips, Home Office safeguarding minister, has spent her life fighting for women’s rights. He isn’t fit to even mention her name, let alone libel her as he has done. She is currently unable to go out alone in public because of his demented attacks on her, including the accusation that she is a “rape genocide apologist”.

He claims that Starmer is blocking an........

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