"It's quite difficult to sort them out". posted by Richard Seymour

BBC Radio 4's Today programme aired an interview with Sir David Gore Booth, a prominent British ambassador, today at 7.44 am. The interview, conducted by James Naughtie, produced the following splendid racist idiocy from the mind and mouth of Sir Gore Booth on the topic of Jack Straw's hand-shake with Robert Mugabe:

"There are a lot of people and quite a lot of them are black and it's quite difficult to sort them out"

Apparently, they all look the same.

Listen here .

Suffice to say, the presenter didn't challenge him in the slightest.