Hanif Kureishi
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And if you saw the hospitals and the care homes and the transport system and so on here, you'd see it's entirely run by immigrants. But of course, it's hated, that dependency by people, and they wish to end it, to go back to being an entirely Caucasian society. But that can't happen.
And if you saw the hospitals and the care homes and the transport system and so on here, you'd see it's entirely run by immigrants. But of course, it's hated, that dependency by people, and they wish to end it, to go back to being an entirely Caucasian society. But that can't happen.
And if you saw the hospitals and the care homes and the transport system and so on here, you'd see it's entirely run by immigrants. But of course, it's hated, that dependency by people, and they wish to end it, to go back to being an entirely Caucasian society. But that can't happen.
And so there's a kind of deadlock in British society between those who want to hate immigrants and the rest of us who realize that without immigrants, the NHS, for instance, would break down. It just wouldn't work at all. And the NHS and our social system is understaffed as it is.
And so there's a kind of deadlock in British society between those who want to hate immigrants and the rest of us who realize that without immigrants, the NHS, for instance, would break down. It just wouldn't work at all. And the NHS and our social system is understaffed as it is.
And so there's a kind of deadlock in British society between those who want to hate immigrants and the rest of us who realize that without immigrants, the NHS, for instance, would break down. It just wouldn't work at all. And the NHS and our social system is understaffed as it is.
The nurses and doctors in the hospitals in which I spent a year were complaining all the time about they didn't have enough people to work there. So this is a real deadlock and a real problem because it's really fun to hate on immigrants. People really enjoy it. They're the one group of people in society that you can hate.
The nurses and doctors in the hospitals in which I spent a year were complaining all the time about they didn't have enough people to work there. So this is a real deadlock and a real problem because it's really fun to hate on immigrants. People really enjoy it. They're the one group of people in society that you can hate.
The nurses and doctors in the hospitals in which I spent a year were complaining all the time about they didn't have enough people to work there. So this is a real deadlock and a real problem because it's really fun to hate on immigrants. People really enjoy it. They're the one group of people in society that you can hate.
And it's an absurdity because they're the one group in society in which you're entirely dependent and without whom your society would go down into darkness.
And it's an absurdity because they're the one group in society in which you're entirely dependent and without whom your society would go down into darkness.
And it's an absurdity because they're the one group in society in which you're entirely dependent and without whom your society would go down into darkness.
My dad came from Bombay in India. He came from a Muslim family, but they were a secular family then. They were an upper middle class, wealthy intellectual family. And my dad came to England to study law. So many members of the wealthy middle class from India, like Gandhi and Jinnah and so on, great figures from India, they all came to the West to study. to be educated.
My dad came from Bombay in India. He came from a Muslim family, but they were a secular family then. They were an upper middle class, wealthy intellectual family. And my dad came to England to study law. So many members of the wealthy middle class from India, like Gandhi and Jinnah and so on, great figures from India, they all came to the West to study. to be educated.
My dad came from Bombay in India. He came from a Muslim family, but they were a secular family then. They were an upper middle class, wealthy intellectual family. And my dad came to England to study law. So many members of the wealthy middle class from India, like Gandhi and Jinnah and so on, great figures from India, they all came to the West to study. to be educated.
And then normally they would return to India to, you know, to run the country. But my dad met my mom. He got married and he stayed in the UK and wanted to be British. He wanted to be an Englishman, in fact, and he liked England. He loved England and he always wanted to stay here.
And then normally they would return to India to, you know, to run the country. But my dad met my mom. He got married and he stayed in the UK and wanted to be British. He wanted to be an Englishman, in fact, and he liked England. He loved England and he always wanted to stay here.
And then normally they would return to India to, you know, to run the country. But my dad met my mom. He got married and he stayed in the UK and wanted to be British. He wanted to be an Englishman, in fact, and he liked England. He loved England and he always wanted to stay here.
My family moved to Pakistan after partition. All my many uncles and aunts and cousins and so on, they moved from India to Pakistan to be safe in Pakistan, which is a Muslim state.
My family moved to Pakistan after partition. All my many uncles and aunts and cousins and so on, they moved from India to Pakistan to be safe in Pakistan, which is a Muslim state.