Nesrine Malik’s analysis of Shabana Mahmood’s immigration policies may apply more widely than to second-generation immigrant politicians (Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive, 24 November).
Twenty years ago, while making a documentary on politics for the Open University, I interviewed a group of 15-year-olds at a school in Moss Side, Manchester. The school had selected a mixed group of children, half identifying as white British, half as second-generation immigrant.
