As usual, the Daily Mail is living up to its tabloid tendencies. Read what's actually suggested, and there's nothing controversial.

From my POV, I dearly wish there were more non-white people involved in outdoors activities. Indoor sports and playing-field sports, plenty of non-white people are involved at the highest levels. But look at hill-walking, rock-climbing, sailing, canoeing or any other outdoors activity which doesn't get TV coverage, and you can pretty much count the non-white participants on the fingers of one foot. :-( In our hang-gliding club whose catchment area covers the whole of East Anglia, we have precisely one black member, and he's an African immigrant. And if you go into the rock-climbing centres in Sheffield or Leicester, both located in an area with a massive Asian population, it's wall-to-wall whites.

And as far as the "birth ceremonies" go, you might like to consider that this is because too many parents don't consider they need to do anything in teaching their kids (that's teaching skills, facts or plain morals). "Schools should do it", or "shops shouldn't sell them alcohol/cigarettes/horror movies/computer games", or "broadcasters shouldn't show this at 9pm when kids might still be watching". Word up folks - this is *your* job, not the state's.

Graham.