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“Wake up, make toast, get train, brief manager, analyse intelligence, team lunch, disrupt terrorist operation, make calls, go shopping, chat to friends, go to bed,” it reads – before emphasising the service’s commitment to reflecting the diversity of the society it “works to protect”.The agency is still viewed as white-dominated and is considered to fall well behind other government departments when it comes to boosting racial diversity in the organisation.A Home Office official said yesterday: “The security services are very consciously and positively trying to increase the proportion of ethnic minority staff.”The service recruits openly and regularly advertises in the national and specialist and ethnic minority press.”But he insisted that staff posts would still be decided on the basis of merit.He said: “We have the best personnel policies and procedures in place.”We are aware of the need to reflect the diversity of society today. Selection of new recruits is based on merit.”The spokesman added that the organisation, whose director general is Stephen Lander, began to take steps to recruit from the ethnic minorities in 1999 and now has an internal equal opportunities forum.A recruitment drive through newspaper advertisements in 1999 led to 20 men and women being chosen from 16,000 applicants, of whom nine were black or Asian.Dame Stella Rimington, the first female head of the security service, was chief of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. She is reported to have been offered a £500,000 advance for her book, A Life of Surprises, by the publisher Random House.. For the first time in five months, Vincent Bethell has some clothes on. Looking like he has just stepped out of Oxfam, in a pair of prison-issue blue jogging bottoms and a red sweatshirt, the veteran nude campaigner insists that he isn’t letting the side down.

He just needs time to get over the five months he spent without his clothes on remand before he whips them off again in public Next time it may even be in front of the Prime Minister. For the first time in five months, Vincent Bethell has some clothes on. Looking like he has just stepped out of Oxfam, in a pair of prison-issue blue jogging bottoms and a red sweatshirt, the veteran nude campaigner insists that he isn’t letting the side down. He just needs time to get over the five months he spent without his clothes on remand before he whips them off again in public. Next time it may even be in front of the Prime Minister.
Bethell, 28, is still dizzy after his landmark court victory on Wednesday. The first person to stand naked in an English dock, Bethell was found not guilty at Southwark Crown Court of causing a public nuisance after repeatedly stripping off in busy streets and shopping centres to promote the “acceptance of the human skin”.

He is the first man to have been cleared of such an offence.”It has been very hard work to get to this stage,” says Bethell. “People don’t see the amount of effort that has gone into it. It has been a great strain, but I’m very happy.”It’s a historical decision and a great step forward. I think I have actually legalised public nudity through case law, and through a precedent, but it’s a grey area. I maintain that it was never illegal in the first place.”Bethell, who is unemployed and lives in Coventry, started his Freedom To Be Yourself campaign, which demands a change in the law is made to allowed public nudity, in 1997. He first wrote to Parliament, and then took matters further the following year when he got his kit off in front of startled tourists in Piccadilly Circus.Part of the reason, he says, was to help him overcome his poor body image. “One aspect was the fears about my body and the imperfections that we all perceive in ourselves,” he explains “I felt that my penis was quite small.

There’s great pressure on women to have a certain breast size, and with men there’s this thing about how big your penis is. And judging by other people I felt that my penis was slightly smaller. Once you confront your fears, they no longer have any power over you. It’s the power of saying I am what I am.”I felt life was too short to have these hang-ups about my body. I remember in the summer waking up naked and going out to collect the milk from the doorstep, and thinking ‘Gosh, I’ve got to hide myself’. I thought I shouldn’t have to go through life fearing my body, and fearing what people think of me.

I didn’t want to feel uneasy about my appearance as a human being.”I’m not a naturist, I’m not a nudist, I’m not a streaker. If I’m going to be defined as something it would be a philosopher.”The stripping in public continued. Some shoppers shook his hand, and those who could stop giggling shouted words of encouragement. But there were also those who accused him of being a “pervert” and a “weirdo”. In all, Bethell was arrested six times.After the last occasion, magistrates finally lost patience, and he was remanded in custody. He describes the five months he spent on remand in Brixton Prison as traumatic: “When I first arrived, it was very terrifying indeed. I was in the Securicor van and the prison officers came up and shouted ‘Put your clothes on!’ through the window in a very aggressive tone.