The mass, inward, multinational migration experienced in the UK today is not a novel phenomenon.
Four hundred years ago, the Reformation caused large-scale, trans-European migration. The Calvinist Dutch Republic became an ark for refugees from all over the continent.
The result was that, by the close of the 17th century, a significant percentage of the population of the Dutch Republic was not Dutch.
Why I took a stuffed parrot to CofE Synod
The General Synod of the Church of England has engaged over decades in a cycle of groundhog-day debates about human …