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  When I lived in London a long long long time ago, we had some lovely vibrant and diverse communities as you describe Peter. Differences were celebrated and there was, overall, a good spirit of welcome and partial integration. There was a recognition of a "host nation" and the responsibilities that brings, but also the responsibilities of the immigrants to be flexible and to integrate. That reciprocal responsibility seems, or feels, to have gone and there appears to be much more hostility both ways. This is clearly partly in response to the tabloid agenda and partly in response to fiscal anxiety. It is also partly in response to terrorism and politics, like we Irish experienced in the 70s. Different times.......

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