This year’s general election will see the British National Party try and exploit divided communities in towns and cities across the country. Charlie Baker, who has worked for regeneration cooperative URBED in cities across northern England, looks at the causes of prejudice and segregation in Britain’s racial hotspots.
.... in many of the towns that I‘ve worked in up here there is very little integration, but integration is a politically charged term. It has expressed itself as expected in schools, in housing choices, in workplaces. But you cannot force integration. And should you if you could? In a healthy society plurality and diversity enrich life – why would you want to homogenise? It would be ridiculous to crush the myriad of differing identities. [The Samosa] Read more
