Last week Robert Jenrick singled out Birmingham as being home to “intercommunal violence” and “segregated communities”. Yet Birmingham has become quite a bit less segregated since 2001, *despite* the white British population falling from 66% to 43%… 2/5

What’s going on here? The relationship between immigration and segregation is complicated. But broadly, segregation appears to initially go up when a few ethnic minorities arrive, but then go down again when the area becomes a lot more diverse…. 3/5