We have reached a perverse situation where British public money, channelled through billion-pound government grants, is being used to exclude people from support on the basis of their skin colour. This is the case with Sheffield’s council which, as reported this week, is reserving taxpayer-funded employment support for ethnic minority groups. This scandalous situation is not isolated but part of a broader pattern of other public organisations doing the same.

The murder of Henry Nowak has forced a reckoning with public sector attitudes to race. Has the pendulum swung too far? I think it clearly has. And I agree with Kemi Badenoch: at least as it applies to ethnicity, the Public Sector Equality Duty has to go.

The Equality Act, for all its imperfections, does remain sound in its philosophy. It protects all individuals from discrimination regardless of ethnicity; it applies as equally to a white person as to a black or brown one. We should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. But the PSED, specifically as it applies to ethnicity, is a different beast. It creates a duty to have “due regard” to someone’s identity: language so elastic it has been stretched well beyond what is reasonable.

Resist Comment.  Again, minorities given preferential treatment over indigenous white people: the people who pay their taxes that are used to promote this rubish.