Bring on the Common Good

The BBC's Sports Editor came to the UK from India as a student in 1969.
The British High Commissioner in New Delhi has proudly issued 44,000 student visas this year. There was no mention on BBC Radio 4's The New Art of Diplomacy (15 December) about any of them returning home after completing their studies.
It is because the UK is such an attractive destination (for which history plays a major part) that, regardless of whether native British men can live and work abroad through marriage, it is necessary for the UK to close that particular loophole by which foreign and Commonwealth men can take up permanent residence in the UK.
The burning issue of equality is trumped by relativism with reference to the common good.