On the racist issue, I was shocked at the sheer bloody-minded, overt racism evidenced in relation to Sainsbury’s Christmas advertising campaign and hoped we might have learned from the global revulsion of racism witnessed in the George Floyd death and aftermath. Unfortunately, it is clear some people are just not able to let go of their racist bigotry and irrational hatred of the “others”.

I am crystal clear in my own mind that we must be anti-racist in everything that we do, and we should all unite together to eradicate individual, institutional and systemic racial inequalities that we can all witness going about our daily lives across the globe and in our own backyard.

Such is my profound hatred of racism, I am proud and happy to stand in solidarity with my friends and colleagues to put an end to racism, but can we please end this what has become by now farcical, the “taking the knee” at football matches?