“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

In other news, it seems that London is in the middle of a secessionist frenzy. My friend ‘Annie Mole’ has a lovely blog here that every Londoner should bookmark. Her latest post reports the possibility that Archway will be renamed ‘Whittington’, – Dick Whittington apparently ‘turned again’ just has he was passing Archway Tube.

A while ago, a campaign was launched to rename Arsenal tube station as well. Apparently these guys had some suggestions that were, like, TOTALLY unacceptable.

Of course, there’s nothing new about secessionism in London as this old documentary illustrates: