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Rod Liddle

'Black,' 'coloured', 'BME' - any kind of label is essentially racist. It's time to move on

Why is 'coloured' worse than 'people of colour'? And what's the logic of 'black'?

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

How should we refer to non-white people, and foreigners in general, given that of course we do sometimes need to mention them, perhaps over dinner in White’s or when mulling over where to go on our holidays? This is an important question, because the approved terminologies seem to shift by the day, if not the minute, and we could find ourselves in a lot of trouble.

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