Should have stayed Cylon-t.

I guess he may have a point if *today's* BBC writers, directors and schedulers were the same ones as put on The Black and White Minstrels etc.

Also, doesn't take a great stretch of the imagination to picture Farage enjoying an episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum or agreeing with Alf Garnett, does it?

For your son.

www.childline.org.uk

I thought Reform "couldn't afford" to investigate Russia links?

If they've got £1m to spaff on an ad campaign, either they're lying or the links to Putin are so pervasive that they couldn't track them even with a seven - figure investigation budget.

A cardboard box?

Well, maybe I'm just looking for something else the pod doesn't offer. Thank you anyway for the courtesy of your replies.

And that's about it Andrew.

I recognise you're not the Today programme and you rely on politicians (of whatever stripe) wanting to be on the pod, but I wonder if your editorial policy could be a bit more challenging?

I was really disappointed that the team didn't really challenge Matt Warman's points. Robert Jenrick's "no white faces" trip to Birmingham was "reflecting voters' concerns", was it?

Yes I have - because I live 20 miles away.

Glasgow sectarianism is a perfect example of the duality of national symbols, which is kind of the point of the post.

Flying a flag or wearing a shirt is fine.

Unless you're doing it to intimidate, or exclude, or harass someone who's different to you.

Then, as the Brazilians say, "nem fodendo!"

In the UK, a cross of St. George, or a Union flag, has an innocent and respectable meaning as a national symbol.

But deployed in certain ways - placed outside and asylum hotel, or waved by an anti-refugee protesters, for example - it's a warning marker to anybody a little bit different.

To us in the UK, the Brazil shirt reminds us of Pele, Socrates and Roberto Carlos.

To a dark-skinned Brazilian or a member of an indigenous tribe, it's a warning marker that it's wearer likely espouses the racist, homophobic, pro-torture ideals Mr Bolsonaro regularly articulated.

It meant as a (very) white girl, walking around in Sao Paulo she would attract certain types of people, and noticed she visibly made darker-skinned students at university wary.

Thankfully her Brazilian mentor kindly explained the shirt's significance and advised tact

A few weeks in, on a call, I asked if she'd worn her shirt. She was a bit uncomfortable and said yes, she had, but it had led to a bit of trouble.

You see, in Brazil, Bolsonaro's movement had appropriated the shirt as a uniform for it's supporters.

Two years ago my daughter started her university year abroad in Brazil. We were a bit worried, if course, but a few months before she went Lula was elected President and the hard-right, authoritarian regime of Jair Bolsonaro lost power.

To celebrate her trip we bought her a Brazil football shirt.