There’s no faster route to acceptance, even canonisation, in the post-modernist, feelings-trump-facts contemporary world than the path of victimhood. Don the mantle of victimhood and the Wokerati will welcome you into the fold, applauding your courage in speaking up about whatever hitherto unheard-of persecution you’ve been subjected to.

The latest and most abhorrent example of this is the attempt to rehabilitate paedophilia – to project abusers as poor, misunderstood souls who simply want to express their sexual preference.