Some race issues were left unsaid

A teacher and pupil reading a book. ‘Our failure to address David Blunkett’s championing of high-performing minority groups in schools was not an oversight,’ writes Trevor Phillips. Photograph: Image Source/Alamy

David Blunkett chides me gently for not drawing attention to his record as a cabinet minister in robustly challenging examples of excessive political correctness and championing high-performing minority groups in schools (Letters, 24 March). His criticisms were based on my brief radio interview, made before the broadcast of Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True. I hope that he will be relieved that the omissions were not due to an oversight but to the fact that our film did not address either question. Otherwise we would certainly have acknowledged his important contribution to better race relations. Perhaps a case of Things We Could Have Said About Race (But Didn’t) That Are True.
Trevor Phillips
London