Now Sir Geoffrey's done the racism and has made his public grovelling :-(

[Sir C]

I remember my nan getting the right hump when 'coloured' became offensive. 'I was trying to be bloody nice, you don't want to know what I call them in private!'......

Good old nan.....

When I travel anywhere in East Africa I am constantly called 'mzungu'. This is deeply racist, as it stems from an old Bantu word meaning 'he who spins around', hailing from the days when people in the bush would encounter lost Victorians wandering around in circles trying to find their way back to civilisation. Or Dar es Salaam, anyway.

The point is that black Africans call me a belittling, hurtful, triggering and offensive name which also mocks the tribulations and struggles of my ancestors who civilised Africa and died in the their thousands doing so.

Do you hear me complain? Only occasionally.