Jeremy Paxman [has] said it [has] become impossible for middle-class white men to make it in the television world.

The 58-year-old presenter, who is a Cambridge graduate, made his comments in a pre-recorded interview shown at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Responding to the suggestion that television had become a “man’s world”, Mr Paxman said: “The worst thing you can be in this industry is a middle-class white male. If any middle-class white male I come across says he wants to enter television, I say ‘give up all hope’. They’ve no chance.”

Related: Where are the white heroes?

The Met is already being sued by another officer, Shabbir Hussain, on similar grounds.

The Guardian has some background on the Met’s troubled race relations.

Related: A (very) brief note on race and crime in the context of another murder involving ‘race’.

The Independent claims Hastings, which has a large number of foreign students, has an “inordinately high number of race-related attacks” (although no source is cited). Recording ‘race crimes’ will always be difficult.

Jehanzeb writes about Muslim women in comic books (part 1, part 2), which MMW also featured a few months ago.

Shawna shares her experiences growing up as a Muslim in the Bible belt.

• Christian Science Monitor, “Sudanese: ‘What Arab-African rift?’”: In Sudan’s Arab north, Arabs marry, go to school, and work side by side with Africans from Darfur. The divide portrayed in the West means little to people here.

• The Economist, “Lifting the veil”: A witness and victim of the conflict in Darfur finds a voice