Country people are white and racist.

It is truly astonishing that a report can get away with this insidious sentence: “The perception that green spaces are dominated by white people can prevent people from ethnic minority backgrounds from using green spaces.” But white people are the largest ethnic group in England and Wales, forming 82 per cent of the population. According to this report, ethnic minorities are uncomfortable sharing a space with the dominant ethnic group in the country.

Do the authors feel that people like me are generally unhappy in a white majority country? What exactly is the white population meant to do about this perceived problem? It beggars belief that this sort of divisive, dehumanising and dangerous thinking is what counts as inclusivity in the West today.

This has got to stop. This constant drip feed of the sinister narrative of white versus non-whites, the oppressors versus the oppressed is guaranteed to lead the nation down a path of social strife of the kind we read about in countries far away.