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Good evening. The King chose the full-dress occasion of a mansion house speech last week

to praise Britain for being a community of communities.

It was essentially an appeal for tolerance and calm,

as the passions raised by the Hamas butchery and Israeli response to it in Gaza spills out onto our streets.

But it comes at a time when the policy of multiculturalism of celebrating or at least accommodating those things that differentiate us,

rather than striving to integrate those of different backgrounds and beliefs, is increasingly being questioned.

Not just racial, ethnic differences.

We all seem to wear labels these days,

are seen not as individuals, but part of an interest group,

based on gender, sexuality, age, class, wealth, disability, education.

Our public discourse critics say, is being reduced to single-issue ranting,

dominated by earnest elites who see their own interests as social justice,

all threatening our cohesive democracy.

Others, of course, regard this as progress, a matter of rights and respect,

and a long way still to go.

Labels and loyalty.

But loyalty to whom?

Community, however, defined, or country.

That's our moral maize tonight.

The panel, Ash Sarka from the Navarra Media Group,

Sonia Soda, the columnist, author and former Labour Party advisor,

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