The story of immigration in modern New York is bitter-sweet. This piece ran on BBC Radio 4's Americana, though I'm posting a slightly longer cut than the one which ran:
He was a proud friend to the IRA in the 1980s, and now Congressman Pete King is defining the terms of how America should be dealing with the homegrown terrorist threat from "Muslim extremism". No wonder suburban Muslim professionals in his home district are confused as to his judgement. This piece of mine ran on PM tonight:
Time was, record-breaking was pretty hard. You had to get past Roy Castle and the McWhirter bros to make it. But now there's the URDB, where everyone's gotta be the best in the world at something...This ran on the record-breaking Today programme. Cool.
New York escaped the worst predictions, but the economy's still deteriorating every day. The squeezed middle's quietly slipping down, and down. Here's a slice of that from me, as broadcast on the BBC's World Update last week.
