The National has a series of articles this week, welcoming inward migration to Scotland.
I am one of the first to comment in the series, and as the National notes this morning:
Professor Richard Murphy today looks at immigration, arguing that we shouldn't just be welcoming migration, we should be rolling out the red carpet.
There will be a version of this soon, here, maybe tomorrow.
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Something to note that I heard on an old (over a year old) podcast yesterday:
It seems that the USA assimilates (turns them into flag waving Yanks waving the flag for American culture) immigrants but does not integrate them.
England is the opposite, it seems to integrate (for their labor) them but does not assimilate (consider them *English) them.
I find this interesting. Is assimilation and integration of immigrants different in different parts of England? I have heard stories about Norfolk that made my hair curl and I did not even know if the stories are true.
*Footnote: Please see that I referred to England and not the UK.
I spend a lot of time in Norfolk…..
Most of what you will hear is very wrong
Red crosses appearing on mini roundabouts in Derbyshire now – ugly, unwelcome – no thanks. Out and about in the Peak – people of all colours enjoying weather on bank holiday. Wish we could keep it like that.
Red crosses on roundabouts…. Just street art….. By Wanksy
Many years ago I got invited on a corporate do to a One Day cricket international at the Oval. Copious amounts of beer were consumed. On one of my many visits to the gents I found myself standing next to a second generation Indian. He was wearing an Indian cricket shirt but had an England baseball cap on. As we’re attending to our respective matters in hand, the gent standing on the other side of him from me looked at his shirt and cap and said words to the effect of “excuse me mate but isn’t your gear a bit contradictory?” to which he immediately responded “Nah mate. It’s really quite simple – when it comes to cricket it’s India everytime, but every other sport like football it’s always England!” The parting response from the other man was “Fair enough, I can live with that”. Who’d have thought that one of the most telling lessons in multicultural tolerance, understanding and mutual respect in my experience was to be found in the gents urinals of a cricket ground in south London. Oh how I wish Nigel Fartrage had been there at the same time. Irony of ironies, I’m not really keen on cricket and only attended out of a sense of duty!
I lived not far from the Oval for four years in my early 20s.
I went to cricket occasionally, but more often to The Cricketers pub: a great Sunday evening jazz fusion venue back then. I wonder if it is now? Morrisey and Mullen. https://youtu.be/Bq9EmbpuU2g?si=kNkwki14P9KoEJdR
I was a huge fan of Morrissey Mullen and The Cricketers.
I saw Jim Mullen a few months ago in Birmingham playing with Claire Martin.
He is nearly 80 now and still plays 2 or 3 gigs a week. It was a pleasure to have a brief chat with him and reminisce about the old days.
Wow. I had no idea that he was still playing. I had to look up the Cape Wrath album, and listen again. It is available on YouTube if you search hard enough.
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