This essay, on immigration policy as more theatre than workable solutions, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 18 December 2022, under the headline “Workable proposals? No, western immigration policy is a theatre of cruelty”. A decade ago, on 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants caught fire and sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa; 366 people died. It was not the first migrant disaster in the Mediterranean – at least 12,000 migrants had drowned in the previous 20 […]

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