Oh Kwasi Kwarteng. You made this a Black History Month I’ll never forget

‘If Kwasi Kwarteng’s expert grasp of history extends to horror movies he may recognise himself in an enduring trope: the Black guy getting killed off first.’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

The collective self-esteem of white men must be at an all-time peak right now. In its centuries of existence, Britain had a grand total of 38 days without a single white man at the top table of its government – the short-lived first season of Liz Truss’s government.

Within that period, the once globally envied pound sterling collapsed to all-time lows, the cost of borrowing skyrocketed to nearly unsustainable levels, thousands of mortgage products and offers were withdrawn, the economy was run like that of a developing nation ruled by a drink-sodden semi-literate autocratic colonel and much of the world looked on in laughter or bewilderment.