We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.