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While the report doesn’t explicitly say that dogs, or dog-walking, are racist, it does at least suggest that the unbridled presence of dogs in parks and other green spaces is hampering the government’s aim of turning Wales into a bastion of inclusion. It proposes the creation of ‘dog-free areas in local green spaces’, among other recommendations.

The group’s vaunted ‘qualitative and quantitative’ research methodology appears to have consisted of lobbing questions at the unsuspecting Caribbean community in Bangor, a seaside town in north-west Wales. That ethnic-minority Welsh people also own and like dogs does not seem to figure in the reasoning.

We shouldn’t be surprised by this latest comical suggestion. The Anti-Racist Action Plan has already generated plenty of other hilarious headlines. Reports produced by other groups have pointed to all manner of other ‘barriers’ to multiracial harmony, including the alleged dominance of ‘middle-aged white women’ on allotments.

While it is unlikely to achieve anything other than more embarrassing news stories, and a further drain on public resources, here’s hoping the Welsh state’s patronising crusade against imaginary forms of racism doesn’t end anytime soon. We could all do with a few more laughs.