""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.""

Expand your thinking a little beyond the somewhat rarefied atmosphere of "The Arts" Ruth.

There are numerous examples of the fact that political correctness has passed beyond the realms of reasonable balance.

If a black person feels that he/she is being discriminated against because of skin colour, his/her complaint MUST be treated as a case of racism, and seriously investigated as such. No such consideration is forthcoming when the complainant is white. Try making a complaint, and see where it gets you.

Government, both national and local, is falling over itself to avoid upsetting ethnic minorities, in ways that sometimes even those ethnic groups find ridiculous.

Banning Blackboards
Banning Nativity plays in primary schools
Banning the traditional Christian assembly, that ties in with our having an established church.

I am not suggesting that we go back the other way, but we do need to treat EVERYONE equally, and if, as you say, we are doing that, then what is driving so many people into the clutches of the BNP? Because, you know, they are gaining support, and we need to stop that ASAP.

Don T.