Article: EXPERT VIEW: The huddled masses are our allies and not our enemies

A rag-bag of refugees gathered in a London pub. In the week following the attacks on the World Trade Centre, they had gravitated by some unique force to London, as the closest they could get to being back home. These were not Afghanis or Serbs, but New Yorkers - each with friends or family missing. In the emotion of the hour, and after much alcohol, we ended up bursting into song (not usual for investment bankers): "God Bless America". It was then I looked around me and realised not one of us was born American.

The world is in mourning, of a very special kind. Opinion polls and surveys around the globe show that it is an emotion tinged with fear. The determination and extremism of the new ...

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