When, three years ago, it was revealed that white Britons had become a minority group in London, with just 45% of the population, there was much hand-wringing over “white flight”. The release of more fine-grained data since then has shown what is really happening. White Britons have abandoned almost no part of London. They remain the biggest ethnic group in huge swathes of the capital, partly because non-whites are themselves so diverse. But their numerical dominance is eroding, and in some places it is barely noticeable. White Britons are the biggest group in West Thornton, in south London, with just 17% of the population. This is not white flight—it is more a lazy shuffling of white feet away from the most immigrant-dominated areas. How British.

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