You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

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

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

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.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.