MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
‘Man's Inhumanity to Man*’
Narratives from detained refugees who exist in a virtual lawless world with no fixed sentences
INCOMPREHENSION: Protesters outside the Crowne Plaza London hotel in Heathrow which is being used as accommodation for asylum seekers
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Refugee Tales IV
Edited by David Herd & Anna Pincus
Comma Press £9.99
“We were aware of what was going on outside, we heard about coronavirus…lockdown…we said ‘So now everyone in the whole world is in prison, it’s just that our prison is a bit smaller!’”
There is, however, an essential difference. The evidence from all 14 of these “Tales” from detained refugees demonstrates that detention centres, unlike HM prisons, exist in a virtual lawless world with no fixed sentences, offering little or no hope.
The Windrush scandal has recently woken public attention to the nature of the Tory government’s notorious “hostile environment,” but the figures speak for themselves.
In 1973, 95 people were indefinitely detained, rising in 2020 to 23,073.
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