“With a time-lapse camera, it would appear that London is pulsing as generations and ethnic groups move up and move out.” The BBC reports that something quite remarkable happened in London in the first decade of the new millennium. The number of white British people in the capital fell by 620,000 – equivalent to the entire population of Glasgow moving out.
Insightful analysis from Mark Easton, especially concerning the story of Dagenham and the effect of the Ford motor plant over the last few decades.
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