It is a fantasy to expect sex-starved men from misogynist cultures to respect our values and our women
I was having coffee in the garden with John, the lovely man who comes to help me with all the jobs I can’t manage (a temperamental pond pump and rampant blanket weed among them), when conversation turned to John’s concern for his daughter.
Kirstie’s journey to college takes her past a former RAF base now occupied by illegal migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats. Their ranks have swollen recently to several hundred as the Government struggles to fulfil its promise to empty asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament. Not by deporting the legions of undocumented young males from Africa and the Middle East – of course not, silly! – but by secretly redistributing a majority of those migrants from hotels into HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) and military facilities, presumably in the hope that the public will be less likely to notice and kick off.
