Racism and xenophobia are issues with which we are still grappling.

The third set of ideas are what I call as ideas that we argue about those are ideas where we have a fight, an ideological battle about how to do things.

As we struggle with today s crises, we should be asking whether we are responding in ways that exacerbate our long term problems.

When things get tough in politics, as will happen in most of the world as we struggle with the impact of the global recession, every sensible government will try to hang on to the benefit of doubt.