I’ve known Diane Abbott for about 25 years. She came from a working class under-privileged upbringing to becoming a Cambridge graduate and TV producer before becoming Britain’s first black woman MP.

I don’t share many of her political views (and quite what the politics of this Labour Party are seem hard to define, let alone challenge) but as a human being she is a decent person. Undeniably her famous Tweet was daft and unacceptable and Ed Miliband showed us for the first time his leadership skills by bringing her into line over it.

If he allows her to stay in the shadow cabinet, it will be his second act of good leadership.

Also yesterday, further down the headlines, was the news that Professor David “whites are the new blacks” Starkey (who taught me at university very well and is also a very nice person) has been asked to curate an exhibition in the neighbourhood where Stephen Lawrence was murdered. Just as there were calls for Diane’s resignation, there have been viral campaigns to boycott David’s show.

Rather than banning, sacking, boycotting shouldn’t we – the moderate mainstream majority- just recognise the right to be wrong?