Here’s a very interesting column from a Muslim British MP, Shahid Malik, in today’s Financial Times. Gerard Baker is excellent on British (and American) self-loathing.

Now how about multiculturalism? I don’t think this piece from the BBC even begins to get at the problem. This piece from today’s Daily Telegraph, on the other hand, is dead on. The failure of British multiculturalism carries lessons for the United States. Massive and uncontrolled immigration is a problem. Above all, immigration without assimilation is a problem. We need to restore an assimilationist ethic–a common culture of citizenship that will allow controlled immigration to work–and make it clear why uncontrolled immigration won’t work.