Some equalities more equal than others

If Harriet Harman is going to call it an Equalities Bill then, I must be honest, I would have thought she would be trying to get rid of discrimination in employment not just shuffling the pack to change whose turn it is now to be hard done by.

I can't really see how nominating some other poor soul to end up with no chair when the music stops actually helps anyone but there you go, I don't get paid to turn my prejudices into policy. It seems that being English white male is now a crime in the eyes of the Government.

The Minister for Women does have some form when it comes to sticking her feminist knife into men as well as the traditional notion of family - mother, father and all that old fashioned stuff - but I would have thought that the daughter of a Harley Street doctor and a London solicitor who had the benefit of an education at the independent St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith might just have just picked up, along the way, that discrimination is like unique in that it cannot be qualified.

Something is either discrimination or it isn't, and just as an object cannot be almost unique - it either is or it isn't - there can be no such thing as positive discrimination - just ask the poor white, English bloke who misses out to prove the point.