Hot on the heels of Home Secretary Harriet Harman’s proposal to legalise sex discrimination in employment comes news of my local council’s non-white swimming sessions:
A council has been fiercely criticised for holding ethnic-minority only swimming sessions.
Wolverhampton City Council employs special life-guards and instructors for the sessions, which are open to the city’s black and Asian residents only.
It claims the weekly periods are for women and children with “religious or cultural issues which would otherwise prevent them from taking part.
But furious pool-users say they amount to racial segregation and claim they are being prevented from using the pool - simply because they may be white.
The Evening Standard, Row over ethnic minority only swimming sessions for women and children
