In the fevered imagination of those obsessed with implementing ever greater ‘diversity’, there is seemingly no object or aspect of life they won’t seek to change at all costs. Thus it’s no surprise to hear that the latest target of opprobrium is the British countryside itself.

It epitomises the blundering ignorance of the global, Anywhere class who have been in charge for too long

Following a Defra report in 2019 that revealed that some saw the countryside as ‘being for white people and middle-class people’, officials have spent the last few years working on changing that – by making the great outdoors more welcoming to ethnic minorities. National Landscapes, a charity mostly funded by Defra, has been busy overseeing the diversity drive. New proposals at local level include producing fresh marketing material featuring people from ethnic minorities written in ‘community languages’, and the suggestion that dogs should be kept under tighter control because some groups dislike them. The management of Surrey Hills has already concurred that ‘some demographics are under-represented in our countryside’, while Suffolk and Essex Coast Heaths has expressed concerns about ‘the composition of visitors’.

Never mind the hideous management-speak that........

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