Significant Progress, Considering

Despite several years of internal turmoil, the Conservative Party has managed to preserve its venerable tradition of morally acceptable racism: a tradition unsullied even in the impressive diversity of a Cabinet united only by Sunakian greed, Bravermaniac meanness and Cleverlyesque stupidity. The more liberal factions of the Party have few objections to Muslims in their place, as witness Toby "the Brain" Ellwood's recent rah-rah for the Taliban; but such moderate and sensible perspectives are not always greeted with enthusiasm, and a token report on Islamophobia appears, despite all good intentions, to have been lost amid the noise. The Party still has no formal procedures for handling discrimination by the deserving, and even when sanctions are imposed there is no particular interest in enforcing them, to the vast surprise of everyone whose capacity for observing the obvious approaches the journalistic.