WHEN a policeman bends the knee for Black Lives Matter he is, without realising so, declaring that we are not all equal before the law, but that the claims and rights of some groups are more important than those of others.

Whilst sadly there is nothing new to this as an actual policy, the blatant public expression of it is revolutionary.

For example, for decades the rights of young women and girls to the full protection of the law have been treated as of only secondary importance, so that both female genital mutilation and sexual trafficking by grooming gangs have thrived.

This mentality of cultural and moral cringe did not start with ordinary police officers. It can be traced right back to the influence of the Frankfurt School of social policy in first American, and then British universities. From there via pressure groups, political parties and legislation, it has became gradually the belief system of our public sector.

It is the antithesis of of the fundamental values of freedom and equality before the law on which our society rests. And ironically its continued practice will undermine both racial harmony and respect for the law.

OTTO INGLIS,

Ansonhill,

Crossgates.