The talk of family voting all felt quite racially coded and, thank God, in the absence of Alan Turing, Kemi Badenoch was on hand to break that code. On X, she blamed the result – in which the Tory vote was so low that, not wearing my glasses, I thought it was the result for most extreme anti-immigration party, Restore Britain – on “the monster of harvesting Muslim community bloc votes”. There’s a lot going on in that sentence, which somehow manages to conjure supernatural peril, dystopian industrialisation and organ theft into one terrifying reality: Muslims exist, and they’re allowed to vote.