Only just discovered Alison Shaw's study from 1988: A Pakistani Community in Britain. It's incredible reading as it explains the context of how the rape gangs developed so well.

In a better world this would have formed the basis of an official enquiry into immigration policy. What's especially poignant about this study is that it was of the Pakistani community in Oxford, from where one of the many grooming gangs would emerge some years later.

This is something you always see. All this was known, and nothing was done.

I had a read of this paper. It's amazing how much faith Blair et al put in the idea of 'globalisation'. Barbara Roche said in 2000 "As with other aspects of globalisation, there are potentially huge economic benefits for Britain if it is able to adapt to the new environment."

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1968675642007773580

"According to Blair the only ‘rational response’ to globalisation was ‘to manage it, prepare for it, and roll with it’ (Blair 2006).", ‘Migration is driven by globalisation’ (Home Office 2005, 11; Blair 2004)

Stayed at a hotel in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Hotel manager and several of the staff are Pakistani. Hotel manager says he's on a 5 year visa. Looked up the hotel on companies house and one of the directors is also Pakistani, he owns three other venues in the area. So what I imagine has happened is this guy bought the hotel, then used the fact that hotel managers are on the 'skilled worker shortage occupation list' (yes) to bring over workers from his home country who he knows can't complain or leave the job for five years.

On a wall in Reading - Islamism vs reddit 'just-be-a-heckin-decent-human-being' liberalism. Reading has become very yookay. It feels like Reading station is the current boundary between Britain and the yookay.

Other yookay-aesthetics - a burquad woman with her kids, oblivious to the trans protest (various beefy men shouting about the infringement of their trans rights)

In the 2011 London riots the (mostly black) rioters famously targeted JD Sports particularly for looting trainers etc.

At the time Paul Mason described these riots as part of 'a new global revolution' caused by a corrupt global elite, inequality and the 2008 financial crisis.

https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1819808572319887792

In the blurb to his book 'Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions' "he charts the new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters who understand how power works."

Very inspiring Paul!

One of the most interesting social questions which I've never got a satisfactory answer to is why 'diversity' is portrayed so disproportionately by black people and not by Asians or other minorities. As an example, see the current ScotRail homepage and their posters at stations.





The current homepage has three black/mixed people, six white people, and no Asians. Scotland is 93% white, 3.9% Asian, and 1.2% black, so obviously the proportions are highly skewed, with black people overrepresented about 30-fold.scotrail.co.uk