Let me make a sort of orthogonal point: I don’t get the attacks on immigrants - that even I’ve experienced - that sound like “you came here from a bad place.” Yeah man I know. That was the whole idea of coming here. To come to a good place where you can make something of your life in freedom.

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Am sometimes accused as a legal and constitutional commentator of elevating the role of laws and constitutions. Sadly, the purpose of my commentary is the opposite. Law is not magic, prohibitions are not spells. And constitutions are not sacred texts unless people believe in them.

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Two of my final-year mathematics classes (UCL, 1984) were named "Real Fluids" and "Boundary Layers". Don't tell me that mathematicians don't know how to have a good time.

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I am reminded each time I hear on BBC Radio 3 Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia". Which is frequently played.

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I make a conscious effort to incorporate this kind of thing in my lectures on imperialism and decolonisation...

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