I came to like Mickey the moment Rose pretty much said she didn't care a monkey's about him in The Parting of the Ways.
God she treated him badly.

I think it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't thing. 
The way they approach it is pretty clumsy in Nu Who.
I love Captain Jack, but they couldn't have been more obvious with the 'look it's a bi-sexual character on Doctor Who, aren't we being bloody progressive!'

And in the 1980s the West Indies utterly dominated it. That seems a leap.

Of course, not that you can tell as they speak in pure Estuary accents.

Satire is always lost on those being satirized.

We won the World Cup at rugby one year, it's hard to say we're as bad at that as football.

Prejudiced against Romans.

I see your point on this, and there is a lot of defensiveness. But also when citing a cricket outfit as some evidence of insidious colonialist attitudes, then at least on that point it deserves to be ridiculed.

And even at the time a lot of people were decrying it being on air.
There was also stuff like Till Death Us Do Part that lifted the lid on bigotry at the time (though predictably the people being lampooned missed the point of Alf Garnett).

Are you referring to Eccleston? If so he's from Manchester, and I advise against calling Mancunians as being from Liverpool.

For the longest time I advocated for Joanna Lumley as the Doctor.

Autons weren't evil in the Nu Whoverse. They were angry because the Doctor destroyed their food supply.

No that's our other invention 'Organized Hooliganism'.

We're good at rowing! We win Olympic medals and everything!

I thought it's modern form turned up in Birmingham in the 19th century? I am aware of Jeu de paume of course.

It strikes me that you could make that kind of argument about many TV shows from before the 80s as well.
I wouldn't call Doctor Who racist , and I mean explicitly racist, not the sort of stuff you can call racist unless you really look for it.
Now it's British-centric in it's culture and stuff, but that's by design, and…

This is England's Achilles heel with sports. We're fantastic at inventing them, but that usually involves other nationalities routinely humiliating us at them; tennis, football, cricket…

Everything seems a bit far doesn't it?

Yeah honestly that's the 'you pulled that out of your arse' moment, seeing as cricket at the time Davison was Doctor involved England being routinely humiliated by the West Indies.

He could tinkle my ivories anytime.