Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

Migrants face many dangers. Are we one of them?

It’s just not enough to parrot received opinions. If we care, we must ask questions

issue 06 June 2015

A few weeks ago someone very dear to me passed on a question about The Spectator, asked them by a friend. The friend, who I know and like, had read Douglas Murray’s recent report from Lampedusa about the poor Med-faring migrants, and her question was this: ‘Is everyone at The Spectator a racist?’

Some insults brush past without leaving a mark, others pierce the skin and sink in.

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