looking for racism

My thoughts exactly vq - it just made me angry that she was attempting to turn what was a civilised and reasonable discussion into a race issue. There is enough genuine racism around without inventing some.

There is a lot of racism and bigotry around and, if it is fairly evident that there is a good chance that it is at the core of a particular contentious issue, I think it is right to bring the issue into the open.

However, in the particular case that you mention, it seems to me that the reporter was trying to make a fairly run of the mill issue into something much more confrontational - to make the item more "interesting" from a journalistic point of view. I deplore that sort of manipulation.

The radio presenter was trying to make it into a bigger story than it really is.

The perils of Local radio and an ignorant presenter.

I guess the 'new ' owner holds a British passport, and may he succeed in his enterprise

It is the number one 'go to' for 'some people' to throw words like racist /_racism, xenophobic / xenophobia, bigot / bigotry around at the drop a hat.

Ironically there are times when those same people in return do not appreciate that occasionally they could be thought of as thinking in a racist /xenophobic / bigoted manner.