Thought For The Day: Grayson Perry

“People have mellowed out. The prejudiced ones seem like the freaks now.”

Grayson Perry, the greatest living Englishman who's not Mark E Smith, profiled in The Times.

• Grayson’s tapestry series The Vanity of Small Differences goes on display at Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden on June 28, then touring to Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds. artscouncilcollection.org.uk. His fantabulosa Marxist TV series on art and class consciousness, In the Best Possible Taste is on 4od.com.