Trevor Phillips ismaking silly siggestions again, stating that school catchment areas should be redrawn to counter racial segregation. Ho hum, he’s missed the point that fiddling with the system won’t work, we need to abolish the system (for other reasons than race) and move to a full voucher one. Catchment areas in themselves have to go.

There’s one other line that really bugs me:

CRE research shows that […] many young people from ethnic minorities
have no friends beyond their own community.

Yes, I do know what they mean but this is trivial in the extreme. The only useful definition of "community" is the one that actually exists. This are not solely based on race, nor religion, location or any other single factor. "Community" is that group from which your friends are drawn. So it’s entirely tautologous to claim that people do not have friends outside their "community". If they did have friends from another race, area, religion, football team supporters club then that group would be part of their "community".