In the season when nativity play audiences in schools across Christendom are charmed by subversive innkeepers veering off-script to tell Joseph and Mary there is room at the inn after […]
In May a Malian asylum seeker climbed the outside of a Parisian apartment block to rescue a child from certain death, and was immediately granted asylum. We shouldn’t be surprised […]
There’s a story they like to tell in December, about people seeking hospitality in a city that wasn’t their home. A powerful man, hearing a rumour that the old order […]
CNN’s exposure of migrant slave markets in Libya should be no surprise to anyone, as the UN Libyan Support Mission (UNSMIL)’s April report to the Security Council stated migrants were […]
Theresa May holidayed in Italy this summer. One wonders whether she noticed the 95,000 asylum seekers who also travelled there this year, a little less comfortably. If she wonders why so […]
Boris Johnson, aka the Blond Wombat, thrilled Australia in July by (reportedly) delivering the funniest ever speech by a visiting politician (how we have risen in the world!). One wonders […]
Those who think that blatant human rights violations are confined to despots and dictators may be surprised by Australia, whose stranded boat people face a further loss of hope […]
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