On the buses

Well, I was on the Tube, to tell the truth... this morning, with 29 (I counted them!) children no older than 8, accompanied by a few adults - teachers and parents, I assume. There were also tourists and some suits, all of whom could have taken civility lessons from the 8-year olds, but that's another story.

What really, really struck me was that while most of the adults were white (except 1 or 2 out of about 6 or 7), all the children bar one were non white. Mostly African or Caribbean, with a couple of Asian-looking ones. Even the one white boy didn't look British or Northern European, but maybe Turkish.

It was really cute, all these little children behaving themselves really well, some of them even scolding one of the others if they felt they were wriggling around too much, or talking too loudly, or encroaching on someone else's space.

And then I thought: in the improbable event that the BNP gets its way, who's going to pay Mr Griffin's pension???