IN MY FIRST year of retirement I dipped my toe into a number of Newport’s panels, forums, even council meetings and found they were, predominantly white and mostly box ticking.
Two places I found a true mix of Newport’s cultures, the pavements and my church. 
Newport’s leadership at every level is guilty of discrimination. 
Next meeting look around the table and ask “are we”?
Giving publicity to one minority and pining the accusation of discrimination on one leader is distracting us from the fact there is a serious lack of representation affecting the minority cultures in Newport. 
It’s not anti Semitism, it’s discrimination.

Peter Walters
Woodside
Duffryn
Newport