Tanya Joseph: Positive discrimination just levels the playing field for talent

At a recent event, a fellow guest (a so-called senior figure in our industry, god help us) asked me what I thought about novelist Lionel Shriver and her tirade about Penguin Random House’s pledge to publish books by more diverse authors. Before I was able to respond, he declared that she was completely right and in his humble opinion (yes he did actually utter those words) the problem with the drive for diversity was that “women and other minority groups” would always feel the