"The PC brigade have been so focussed on minority ethnic groupings that they have ceased to recognise the plain fact that "white British" is also an etnic group."

As someone who works in this area and is as "PC" as they come, Don, I simply don't recognise that comment - at least in terms of the arts. I do think that there was a concerted effort to remedy the under-representation of other cultures present in Britain in the arts, and that some perceived this as a threat to "white English" culture. But what does "white English" culture mean? At a venue where I worked that had a very strong world music programme, we also had a huge strand of classical music, which even got its own brochure.

I think the fact that "high art" has been valued far more than folk arts for many generations in the UK has been a far bigger threat to English indigenous traditions than multiculturalism or the "PC agenda" has ever been. English people have thrown away what other cultures perhaps valued more highly. Now we're trying to claw some of that ground back.