‘I will be very critical of this place, always, of empire, of their political history, of the way it behaves towards the rest of the world, but,' says Miguel Hernando Torres Umba, 'I do feel a massive level of appreciation for this place.’
Sheila Lam recalls her first impressions of London: 'It can be a really scary place, and scary things are happen. I'm not blind to that, but my personal day-to-day life has been so wonderful.'
More than forty years after moving to the UK from Ireland, Ross Fitzsimons is still haunted by the plight of the teenager Kevin Barry who was executed by the British government during the Irish War of Independence.