John O'Sullivan is making the same mistake for America that he is describing for the UK.
I'm getting Dex yellow pages on my Phoenix doorstep in Spanish only.
Precisely. The levels of immigration to the UK are absolutely dwarfed by those to the US. For example, here in the UK we worry about 500,000 illegal immigrants. This compares to the US with 12 million plus, despite having a population size only 5 times that of the UK. Furthermore, I have never seen services in the UK offered in anything but English. We do have problems with immigrant ghettos: but so does Australia, the US and most of the Western world. We’re still a country, however, that is over 90% Anglo-Celtic still.
This article seems ridiculous to me. Is the author seriously arguing that morals and manners in the US at the moment are unchanged since the 1950s? If not, then why does he judge the changes in the UK so harshly? If anything, the recent problems with gangs etc in the UK are starting to mirror problems that have existed in the US for at least a couple of decades. Britain’s roughest areas have a fraction of the gun crime etc that one would find in areas of the US.
(This is not a criticism of your wonderful country, just an observation)
The problems that he describes are common across the developed world.