Where would Britain be without its communities of colour? For one thing, journalists would have much less to write about. The obscure northern town of Rotherham has achieved world-wide infamy thanks to its hard-working Pakistani rape-gangs. The southern city of London isn’t obscure, but it had fusty associations with stale pale males like Charles Dickens and stale pale institutions like parliamentary democracy.
Vibrancy and violence
Mass immigration has changed all that: in the twenty-first century, London vibrates with murders, gang-rapes and acid-attacks. A Black Londoner called Theodore Johnson has just hit the headlines after being convicted of killing his third “partner.” That’s some achievement, particularly at the age of sixty-four, but Johnson isn’t as remarkable as the Black Londoner Delroy Easton Grant, a serial rapist who specialized in attacking elderly women. ...