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CRASS David Cameron came under fire yesterday for branding families fleeing Syria’s civil war a “bunch of migrants.”
The Prime Minister was accused of “dehumanising” people caught up in a humanitarian crisis in order to score political points.
Campaigners and MPs said the fact that the comments came on Holocaust Memorial Day made them even more inappropriate.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
