The Home Office treats travellers who do us no harm with extreme cruelty and viciousness, yet leaves the door wide open to Covid-19.
My column asks WTAF is going on at our borders.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
My column asks WTAF is going on at our borders.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"A week into lockdown, there were 895 people in detention and none in quarantine."
I just can't get over how perverse and self-destructive this country is becoming.
I just can't get over how perverse and self-destructive this country is becoming.
Reading some comments below the line, I'm reminded that it's often the most sheltered people who say the cruellest things. People who can't imagine what refugees might be fleeing from. A failure of moral imagination often seems to be associated with comfort and security.
Political imprisonment, torture, threats of death, threats to your children: do these things mean nothing? Are they just abstractions that can be waved away? You can see, reading certain comments, how some comfortable people could be capable of committing almost any iniquity.
This is how fascism took root in Europe a century ago. It is generalised not by ranting meatheads in jackboots, but by "respectable" people in slippers.
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