Dolan Cummings is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Ideas, having been research and editorial director 2001 to 2010. He continues to edit the IoI's online review, Culture Wars, where he also writes about books, films and theatre. Dolan has a particular interest in the role of intellectuals, building on Ideas, Intellectuals and the Public. He edited a collection of essays on this subject for a special issue of the academic journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP).
Immigration - Where's the Debate? a discussion with Dolan Cummings
Image Above: Daily Mail file photograph of Multicultural Britain.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 - 7:15pm to 9:00pm
The political elite says hard-grafting immigrants put Britain's lazy workforce to shame, while their liberal critics would rather not discuss immigration at all because they fear the rise of racial tensions.
Against this background, the British National Party claims it has the support of 'ordinary people'.
What is common to questions of immigration is the absence of the actual public from the discussion.
Rather than immigration being a straight forward economic matter of people's concern about competition for jobs, many fear that their whole way of life will be put under pressure or over-run by alien cultures.
Dolan Cummings will be asking whether such anxieties may be overcome by a democratic and inclusive discussion on the relationship between our society and immigration.
Suggested Readings by Brighton Salon Associates
David Goodhart - Did Immigration Transform Britain by accident? BBC News 8th Feb 2010
Brendan O'Niel - Why the Elite Prefers Poles to Proles Spiked Online
Natathalie Rothschild - Immigration Attitudes are not the Problem Spiked Online
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Dan is the Director of the Brighton Salon and has has written extensively about the Criminal Records Bureau checks on volunteers working with children and other problems facing competitive sport in the UK. Dan has published several articles and has had numerous Televison and Radio appearances in the UK and around the English-speaking world on the interplay between sport and society. He has also campaigned against public drinking restrictions and is currently writing a book on the decline of elite distance running and mass participation in time for the London Olympics. He has been a tennis coach for many years and runs a digital marketing firm.