I don’t care what your personal views on transgender rights are… Any British person who made an anti-trans comment, only to find out they were talking to the mother of a murdered trans teenager, would be mortified. As a British person, to have accidentally made such a faux pas would have left me waking up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat for weeks and add several years of additional self loathing.

Even being related to a person who put their foot in their mouth to this level is problematic for me. I still haven’t gotten over my dad inviting a man from the local Indian restaurant over for dinner and deciding a curry was the right meal to cook. Or in a similar vein when my wife’s grandmother had an Indian acquaintance for dinner and thought that steak was the way forward.

Anyway, this week at PMQs Rishi Sunak not only made a gibe about trans rights whilst the mother of a murdered trans teenager was in parliament, but did it with the full knowledge of the situation, entirely intentionally. It’s incredible he can still show his face in public.

Finally, I didn’t realise until this week that I really believed in national identity type things. It has taken the British prime minster crushing a perceived national identity to make me realise that there are some things that I thought of as British.