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Badenoch said, after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, it was right that people wanted to ensure this did not happen again.

It led to the Macpherson report, she said.

[It] wanted to put right what went wrong with policing in the 1990s.

However, in attempting to do so, it also enshrined a principle which I believe is wrong that a racist incident is racist if it is perceived as racist by the victim or any other person.

Equality law, properly designed, should protect us all in the same way. It should be a shield, not a sword.

It should protect people from discrimination. It should protect people from being treated differently because of their race, sex, religion, sexuality, disability or age.

Lisa McGee is back doing what she does best: Writing bizarre situations for a group of teenage school friends wrapped up in a ‘90s soundtrack. While she rose to prominence with Derry Girls featuring Nicola Coughlan in 2018, her latest series, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, is as if Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Clare, and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell) accidentally murdered “the wee English fella” (Dylan Llewellyn) and Sister Michael (Siobhán McSweeney) tried to hunt them down 20 years later.