The latest attacks on multiculturalism in Britain have been coming from the left. “An elite that is unwilling to make judgements about why any one cultural practice is better than another, to set universal standards about what role individuals should be expected to play across society, and to promote a distinct set of values that a society should agree upon, finds a useful tool in multiculturalism. This is why it has been so well-suited to Western societies in the past few decades, increasingly disorientated by the erosion of cultural and political certainties. Clearly, the official promotion of multicultural policy has not provided any solution to this disorientation – indeed, by actively encouraging expressions of difference and divisions between communities, it may well have fuelled the process of fragmentation.”