Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

I don’t mean to sneer, but which is more important: equality or inclusion?

It takes all sorts to make a diversity team, but which is more important: equality or inclusion?<br />Rod Liddle is shocked by a recruitment ad for an Olympics quango -- and the evidence it offers that Britain is being bombarded by vaipid, deluded and meaningless pieties

issue 04 August 2007

Like a good many of you, I imagine, I was worried that hosting the 2012 Olympic Games in London might send out the wrong sort of message, especially to our young people. The games have traditionally been an appallingly elitist and singularly competitive tournament of a somewhat exclusive nature. Certain people, unfairly selected on the shallow basis of their physical prowess, run, jump and throw things and the people who do best are rewarded while those who do poorly are labelled failures.

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