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Multiculturalism has failed claim yet more multicultural commentators in multicultural relationships.

Why don’t these folk just come out and say what they really mean? Clearly they don’t mean their families.

They don’t mean their own partners with dual citizenship, or their parents, siblings or in-laws.

If only they could look in the mirror and reflect on their own successes, they would recognize how vacuous their platitudes are.

Do they not look around themselves in Parliament? Five out of the last six Home Secretaries have been the children of multiculturalism.

Three have been of Asian heritage, one Muslim, one Hindu, one Buddhist. The latest, the son of a British father and Sierra Leonian mother.

If multiculturalism had really failed, would the front benches of parliament be so diverse? What about broadcasting, business, healthcare?

I think what they probably mean is that poverty has failed. Poor people have failed. Which might be translated as Conservatism has failed, given that in over a decade of rule the gap between rich and poor has widened exponentially.

But it is surely easier to lambast a particular subset of migrant communities, mostly associated with a particular religion, than for a political movement to take stock of its own grave shortcomings, presiding over economic woes and a crisis in education, health and welfare.

So we must open our Sunday newspapers once more to read yet more ambitious multiculturals lamenting that multiculturalism has failed for their multicultural children who must now face rising anti-multiculturalism.

To say these people are confused would be the understatement of the decade.

Meanwhile, the rest of us happily carry on leading content and productive multicultural lives, just as we always have. Why must we lambast what we are?