It takes roughly four minutes to walk from the north London Methodist church where I was christened to the spot where a crowd was mown down by a man shouting that he wanted to kill Muslims. The gap between communities might as well be four centuries and four thousand miles, so isolated are they from each other. Urban Britain, far from becoming the vibrant melting pot beloved of its architects, is falling into a mosaic of warring tribes, eyeing each other with mutual incomprehension — and often hostility.
The rampage at Finsbury Park is even more shocking because it took place after a weekend of events marking the first anniversary of the death of the MP Jo Cox inspired by her belief that: “We have