Mike Graham

Crime was always a thing in the middle of London.

And the first time somebody tried to mug me, I think it was in the 70s.

I was walking home from seeing my girlfriend.

But it's different now.

And London is different.

How is it different?

It's different because it is now full of people from somewhere else.

And it didn't used to be.

It used to always have, as every big city has, it had an attractive kind of immigrant aspect to it.

But now, white people are in the minority.

38%, I think, of white English in London.

And I would say in the last five or six years, it's become noticeably a different city.

And not just because of the color of people's skin, but, you know, I mean, I go, I live in southeast London and I'll go to the big supermarket there and I can walk through the entire supermarket, spend about 30 minutes there and not hear anybody speaking English.

You know, they could be speaking Lithuanian.

They could be speaking, you know, Ukrainian.

They could be, you know, it's not a question of whether they're all not white.

But you don't see very many English people there anymore.

And a lot of people find that difficult to cope with because it's, you know, you look at the old...

Shows like The Beatles, for example, from the 60s.

And this is when I first was aware of what London was like.