Why are the British so opposed to immigration? After the confident, multicultural image projected to the world at the Olympics why is public opinion so hostile to more immigration, and so deeply divided over the benefits of past migrations? We have been led to believe that celebrating and promoting diversity will bring us all together. However, in this ground-breaking analysis, Telegraph journalist Ed West finds that while diversity has become an official virtue to be officially celebrated, it is the cause of problems rather than the cure. It has led to lower levels of trust, higher inequality, the emergence of an economically sidelined urban poor and the return of sectarianism. Diversity has been trumpeted by Westminster through successive governments, ignoring the growing dissenting voices of the general public. Whatever fresh immigration policies might arise, the conflicts and clashes which are causing the word immigration to everyone's lips can't be combated until it is possible to have open and reasoned debate about our own culture.
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'Enticingly provocative... One of the most interesting of the rising generation of political writers.' --Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph
'A fascinating exposition.' --John-Paul McCarthy, Sunday Independent
'Try The Diversity Illusion.' --The Mail on Sunday
'A fascinating exposition.' --John-Paul McCarthy, Sunday Independent
'Try The Diversity Illusion.' --The Mail on Sunday
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Ed West is a features writer for the Daily Telegraph and is the features editor of The Catholic Herald. He lives in North London.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By Jacqueline
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In this book Ed West writes about multiculturalism, mass immigration and the diversity drive and how these have today become subjects about which many are frightened to speak out about, unless they agree with the current politically correct status quo, about how this situation has developed, its analysis. When these subjects are mentioned in today's climate, the speaker is often accused of racism. The effect is that effective debate is closed. Ed West uncovers the history behind such a situation, and the book is an even handed and fair analysis of the present state of affairs in Britain. A great many people are concerned about mass immigration and multiculturalism and the push for diversity and the many laws that have been created to implement this. Should there be criticism of this, we are accused of racism. This reminds one of the Orwellian 'thought crime' agenda. West writes of subjects that many are concerned about but have been too scared to talk about. Just one quote with regard to the anti-racist doctrines that have developed over the past decade: "In the words of one critic of multiculturalism, it 'belongs to a family of antimonian beliefs with a long religious history behind them' where 'a doctrine of the purity of the heart was advanced as transcending mere rules of right and wrong. And the result has always been to constitute an elit of the pure in heart who would, of course, need the power to reform society so that it fully shared this ideal purity."
It is hoped that this book will encourage a conversation and debate about this subject - which is after all about the greatest demographic change this country has ever seen in its entire history.
It is hoped that this book will encourage a conversation and debate about this subject - which is after all about the greatest demographic change this country has ever seen in its entire history.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Nicolas Doye
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In this book, West deconstructs the myths that surround mass immigration and "diversity". Much of this information is stunningly absent from our mainstream media and West has clearly done his research.
This is the only book I know of that discusses such issues and does so. The facts are display as is, often dispassionately, but sometimes with empathy and West's characteristic wit. Importantly the book (as with what I know of the author) is not in any way racist or Islamophobic, but merely presents the problems there have been with mass immigration and what forces people into such extreme views.
This is the only book I know of that discusses such issues and does so. The facts are display as is, often dispassionately, but sometimes with empathy and West's characteristic wit. Importantly the book (as with what I know of the author) is not in any way racist or Islamophobic, but merely presents the problems there have been with mass immigration and what forces people into such extreme views.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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An honest and searing indictment of how the West has been betrayed from within
26 April 2013
By J
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Over the years I have gathered much of the same information that Ed West puts forth but he does it far more eloquently, efficiently and logically that one could ever do in a regular after dinner discussion. The social policies and views that have evolved over the last 60 years in the West are complex. He articulates what the regular person has quietly experienced for decades but has not had the words to express.
It is horrifying, and with a deep sense of helplessness, to read how the last few decades have unfolded, shepherded by the very people that were entrusted to safeguard our community's future. Fortunately at the same time there is a feeling of relief that perhaps a shift in thinking is possible to avoid the consequences.
It is horrifying, and with a deep sense of helplessness, to read how the last few decades have unfolded, shepherded by the very people that were entrusted to safeguard our community's future. Fortunately at the same time there is a feeling of relief that perhaps a shift in thinking is possible to avoid the consequences.
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