cos i'm just going to go back to the police, tell you what neil basu, who's a senior police officer ofcruiting black and ethnic minority officers." he says, "black men and women don't want tojoin, and if they do, it's harder for them to get promoted." you can't just sit there, open the door and just hope that something will happen. you need to perhaps push it, don't you? and successive governments have failed... ..to take the initiative to bring about the fundamental changes that are needed. should the black community perhaps be more receptive to joining the police force and wanting to change things from within, like neil basu? um... people willjoin the police force. i don't think they're going to bejoining in huge numbers, but they need to set their house in order first before, you know, your average young black person could think, "well, this is a place where i could have a meaningful career." so when i asked you whether you deal with contemporary issues in your new book time come, i'm thinking of the windrush scandal. of course, that was the big ship on which many caribbean immigran