There is a particular kind of moral blindness that only seems to afflict the modern Western left. It allows you to rage, chant and block roads for causes that are fashionable, while remaining eerily silent when women are crushed under the boot of genuine tyranny. Nowhere is that silence louder than when it comes to Afghanistan.

Let me remind you what is happening there. Under the Taliban, women have been erased from public life. Girls are permanently banned from education beyond primary school and universities are closed to them. This isn't cultural nuance or complex geopolitics. It's state-enforced ignorance, imposed on half the population, and the consequences are not abstract. They are lethal.

In Afghanistan, male doctors are not permitted to treat female patients except in life-threatening emergencies. But how do you get female doctors, nurses or midwives if girls are banned from education? You don't. The result is that something as routine as a urinary tract infection can spiral into sepsis, and pregnancy becomes a game of Russian roulette. Women will die quietly, behind closed doors, because ideology has replaced medicine.

This is what real misogyny looks like. This is what real oppression sounds like.

And yet, where is the outrage? Where are the marches? Where are the placards? Where are the blue-haired feminists who can organise a protest at 48 hours' notice if a gender-critical speaker books a town hall? Where are the Hollywood virtue-signalling clowns, tripping over themselves to add another badge to their designer blazers? Where is Greta demanding emergency UN resolutions and a global response?

Apparently, Afghan women don't make the cut.

Instead, we get endless protests in Britain about ICE, border enforcement, or the latest imported grievance of the week. We see activists who claim to speak for women loudly demanding that men be given access to women's spaces, while showing not a shred of compassion for women who are literally being denied education, healthcare and freedom.

It would be laughable if it weren't so grotesque.

Women in Afghanistan are the most persecuted group in that country, bar none. Yet our government continues to welcome male asylum seekers from Afghanistan, while Afghan women remain trapped, voiceless and forgotten. If feminism means anything at all, it should mean standing with those women first. But modern, far-left feminism isn't about women, it's about performance.

That is the sickness at the heart of it. This ideology doesn't respond to reality; it curates outrage. It picks safe causes, fashionable enemies and protests that cost nothing. Standing up to the Taliban is dangerous, inconvenient and unfashionable. So they don't bother. Afghan women are paying the price for that cowardice and I hope history will not be kind to those who looked away.