"While Phillips has drawn the ire of the far left, he has found support among his center-left Labor Party colleagues. Like Phillips, Sunder Katwala, the general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labor-aligned think tank, believes that pluralism is inherent in the concept of Britishness, and so why not foster Britishness rather than its constituent parts? A self-described 'mongrel Brit' and 'product of the rise and fall of the British Empire,' Katwala, the 32-year-old whiz-kid son of an Indian father and an Irish mother, argues that for a generation the 'politics of recognition' have overshadowed liberals' traditional concern with equality.
"'We need to create a progressive notion of integration and make it compatible with our goal of equality,' he said."
Gregory Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times discusses a shift in emphasis in Britain away from diversity and toward unity.
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