As for your comment on my offering – bleedin’ typical that you should pick up on the point on which I had a couple of paragraphs in my head but discarded as I was running out of writing time. I wanted to follow on my reference to German unification as an example of where popular sentiment overrode other issues and allowed the West to take an economic hit to make it happen, by looking at (in the context of my general appeal to a renewed spirit of a universal Englightenment (aka Habermasian project as per usual), it would be good to look back to the time of the Enlightenment, to a time before the rise of modern capitlalism, to when the British in India had a genuine respect for Indian culture. That, I wanted to argue, might better serve as our model for a renewed commitment to universal liberty (incl mobility of people), than trying to squash the ‘immigration question’ into a cultural box too small for it.

But I didn’t, and I’m happy to have you write about it instead, though you may use different terms and examples). Is that the pas de deux started?