Are you a UK National from a black, Asian, or non-white ethnic minority?

Then I have some great news for you. You are #BAME (British. Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) and you’ve got the job!

I completely understand. You have no qualifications. That doesn’t matter – school isn’t for everyone. Have a sticker for effort.

The role of Production Management Assistant Internship – BBC Current Affairs is ONLY open to UK Nationals who are black, Asian or of non-white ethnic minority

You aren’t legally disadvantaged? You aren’t adopted from care or on free school meals?

No problem. We’ve made up our own special definition of disadvantaged to include nearly everyone who can say they are BAME.

This very modern form of job discrimination boils down to something very simple which no one can bring themselves to put down in print. It doesn’t help to be white.

And if you are white and hard-working, or fortunate enough to live in a stable home, as Obama would say, you are at the very back of the queue, my friend.

The internship's application deadline is May 10, if you are interested in the 12-month post with a ‘bursary’ of £16,881

And this is reflected in the stories in my inbox, from hundreds who have been discriminated against not because of their colour, but because of their lack of it.

Parents have been so disheartened seeing their pale-faced kids rejected on the grounds of lack of colour they have tried to have their story heard. But no one is interested because it’s not very BBC to talk about it.

One girl wrote to me about her experiences trying to get a job in the media industry. Every time she reached interview, she realised she was the lone pale face and knew she might as well turn around and walk out the door.

Another gentleman recounted his work in a call centre, fielding calls from people looking for a job with large public-sector organisations, reading scripted replies from a screen.

He recalls handling recruitment calls for the Metropolitan Police. If the caller said they were from an ethnic minority, a screen would come up for him to read – telling the candidate how to apply.

If they were unfortunate enough to be white, they were told ‘there are no vacancies at this time’. Imagine being that caller and not knowing another script was available if only you were black.

Another girl desperately wants to get into Law but opportunities are closed to her because she is white. Imagine - she says - if there was a City Law for White People. I have been interviewed under caution thanks to the Society for Black Lawyers so I'd like to see some balance too.

When I chanced upon an advert for an internship at the BBC, I thought it sounded like an excellent job for the young people I help when I can.

The role is based in Salford. And Salford has about as much personality as Katherine Jenkins

Production Management Assistant Internship – BBC Current Affairs. A 12-month post with a ‘bursary’ of £16,881. The application deadline is May 10, if you are interested.

One caveat, however: the role is ONLY open to UK Nationals who are black, Asian or of non-white ethnic minority.

Well, a caveat and a snag, actually: the role is based in Salford. And Salford has about as much personality as Katherine Jenkins.

By chance, the founder of Creative Access is also Chris Evans’s agent. Curiouser and curiouser

But therein lies another curiosity. When I spoke to the founder of Creative Access, the ‘charity’ operating this discriminatory racket, he quoted endless figures about the under-representation of BAME candidates in media companies in the capital. In London 42 per cent of graduates are non-white. Yet minority representation in the Creative Industries is just 5.4 per cent.

However, if you take a step back from these handpicked figures, in the UK as a whole our population is 86 per cent white and 14 per cent BAME.

Only a small percentage of this 14 per cent would wish to be involved in an industry so perpetually self-obsessed and narcissistic as the media, as Chris Evans evidences so splendidly.

By chance, the founder of Creative Access is also Chris Evans’s agent. Curiouser and curiouser.

Many of the 14 per cent BAME individuals in the UK are far smarter than media studies courses require and aim far higher - as the diversity amongst NHS consultants testifies.

The founder of Creative Access was concerned I might write about the work of his business – sorry, charity – in a negative light.

And I do respect the fact many interns have secured places entirely because they have the support of an agency and the 30 per cent contribution to the employer for the wages of the intern they take.

But whatever the positive outcomes for a minority, and despite the names of journalists and worthies clamouring to be acknowledged as members of the board, I think these practices are fundamentally wrong.

Another girl desperately wants to get into Law but opportunities are closed to her because she is white. Imagine - she says - if there was a City Law for White People

Firstly, as a taxpayer. Charities like this spring up around government-funding like ticks on a dog, and Creative Access is no exception.

Despite berating nepotism in the City, the charity’s founder has managed to access government cash via his own relationship with Danny Finkelstein, whose paths crossed many years ago. Mates rates much?

And though this funding (EOS2) dries out in June 2016, the charity is re-organising itself to lay claim to the next pot of funds it has in its sights – the Apprenticeship Levy, available in 2017.

Black power seems to have gone to everyone’s heads and racism has spun 180 degrees. That doesn’t make it any less racist

Given the amount of tax I put into these coffers, bled dry by charities founded to capitalise on their connections and easy cash on offer, it galls me that my children – any white children – do not have access to the same opportunities, just because they are white.

I also have a right to an opinion as a mother. Because I work hard to send my children to private school, encourage them to study and test them on their spellings every night, they are not sufficiently disadvantaged to be considered for these roles. But what is the lesson in that? Hard work doesn’t pay? Bunk school and you’re in? Act poor and prosper?

But mostly, I still have a right to an opinion - even though I am white.

Refusing applications from individuals because they are white is discrimination. I don’t care what the Equalities Act might fabricate to counter my views.

Black power seems to have gone to everyone’s heads and racism has spun 180 degrees. That doesn’t make it any less racist.

Whatever happened to the pragmatic commercial realities I believe in, where you are recruited on merit, paid on performance and rewarded on results?