Despite recent, no doubt accurate, reports that Britain’s ethnic stock has remained relatively unchanged for more than 12,000 years (hat tip to Steve Sailer), there has long been a small but steady flow of immigrants to England over the past several centuries — Huguenots, Palatine Germans, East European Jews, and others. The point is not to invent a counterfeit “nation of immigrants” mythology but to cast some doubt on the frequent suggestions (expressed most recently here in the N.Y. Times) that the “seething unease” of the London bombers is somehow Britain’s fault; as the Times story says: “Reared in an often racist milieu, they feel excluded from mainstream British society, which has so far not yielded to hyphenated immigrant identities as America has.” True, as far as the hypenated part is concerned, but what about the Russian Jews, or the Huguenots — Frenchmen, for heaven’s sake. Did they blow anyone up because of their exclusion from mainstream society?