A few years ago I mentioned the profusion of moaning women on BBC Radio 4, after a longish car journey during which the station had broadcast pretty much nothing but moaning women over six and a half hours. I am glad to say that the proportion of moaning women has subsequently reduced to about 65 per cent of the station’s output, the rest of it now being taken up with infuriated and horribly subjugated black people.

When I unwisely turned on the radio this afternoon it was to hear a young black lady tell her little brother: ‘They may be beating us, killing us, but that is no reason to give up’, before her father bemoaned ‘this godforsaken country’. The country she was talking about was not the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti or Somalia, but the United Kingdom, of course. This had been part of a radio drama in which the young black man had been beaten senseless by the usual racist white English folks and nobody cared.

The previous day, the otherwise excellent Clive Myrie had been busy perpetuating more Windrush myths in a lengthy documentary, where we heard black people he interviewed saying that they’d have been much better off staying in Jamaica than coming here to be exploited and racially abused in this abject dump of a country. You might think, to hear this stuff, that there would be rather less objection, then, to the government’s forlorn attempts to deport Jamaican criminals back to their country of origin – or indeed a plea that the scheme might be extended to those of Jamaican origin who have not committed any crimes. Free airline seats and an in-flight snack, etc – surely they would be snapped up?

The BBC – and Radio 4 in particular – is peculiarly, almost psychotically obsessed with race and particularly the tiny minority of our citizens who are of African-Caribbean heritage. The stories the Radio 4 news programmes got most worked up about last week were the revelations that another piece of sarf Lunnun white trash had been involved in the murder of Stephen Lawrence back in 1993, but that the police had failed to investigate properly, being institutionally racist etc, and the inquiry into English cricket, which decided that the game was riven with racism and basically a disgrace to our country and so on. It is rare to turn on Radio 4 – or BBC1, for that matter – and not find someone hectoring you about whitey’s hideous oppression.

Perhaps this is why the audience for BBC Radio 4 has fallen off a cliff, so to speak. In May it was revealed that the station had lost 11 per cent of its audience share, a total of 1.2 million listeners, over the course of a year. In September last year it was also down by about 10 per cent and my guess is that the Rajar figures for the coming autumn will show a continued rapid decline. Listeners are sick to the back teeth of the relentless, carping, tendentious, one-sided drivel and are switching off in their droves. You might think that plummeting audiences would worry the station’s controller, Mohit Bakaya, but the BBC is not in the commercial sector and Mohit seems not to give a toss.

Meanwhile, BBC News continues to follow the Guardian’s agenda in its selection of stories. I heard no coverage whatsoever of the story about the horrible teacher who was recorded telling her Year 8 pupils that they were ‘despicable’ and should find another school because they disagreed with her absurd views regarding gender, not on Radio 4 nor the rest of the corporation’s output.

Nor was there coverage of what is, I think, my favourite story of the year, which was about the city of Hamtramck in Michigan, where the white liberals are terribly upset. They were not initially upset, you understand: at first they were delighted. Hamtramck became the first US city to elect an all-Muslim council and the white liberals were very pleased at what they saw as a symbolic act against, y’know, oppression.

They were less impressed a little later when the council banned, permanently, the flying of the LGBTQI rainbow flag from any public building in the city, and indeed they became quite annoyed when some Muslims – cheering this decision to the rafters – tweeted their jubilation about living in a ‘fagless’ city.

Then the white liberals noticed that what had previously been a city council noted for its beautiful gender diversity was now one in which every single member was a straight male (called Mohammed, most likely). There are to be many protests. A former mayor of the town, a white liberal herself, summed up the mood: ‘There’s a sense of betrayal, we supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.’ Are they? No kidding! And so it is all getting a little bit edgy. ‘These kids are being groomed’ to hate LGBTQ+ people, the former Hamtramck city councilwoman and mayor pro tem Catrina Stackpoole barked to a crowd of rainbow persons. ‘Are we grooming our children to hate Muslims? No. We could very easily go in that direction given the way that we’re being treated. But we are not grooming our kids to hate Muslims. We are grooming our kids to love everybody, no matter what… We all deserve respect.’

You sad sap. You do not deserve respect at all. You deserve to be laughed at for not understanding that any self-respecting Muslim council would do exactly the same. This is the problem with that thing beloved of the liberals, intersectional politics – it doesn’t actually intersect. The entire ideology is based upon a delusion, a falsehood. And watching the scales fall from the eyes of these idiots is something quite delicious to behold. Frankly, I’m with Allah on this one: that flag has been getting my goat for a long while. Public buildings – and the police and schools – should be politically neutral.