On this week’s episode, Isabel Hardman is joined by guests to look at the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and how NGOs might be making things worse, rather than better. We also wonder whether Bristol should be ashamed of its past, and discuss binge drinking with Julie Burchill.
Fewer than 300 miles off the Libyan coast lies the Italian island of Lampedusa. With a population of just over 6,000, Lampedusa has become the nexus of a migration crisis that has rumbled on for years, with seemingly no resolution in sight. In this week’s magazine, Nicholas Farrell reports from Italy on a crisis that he believes is being compounded by boats run by NGOs bringing migrants ashore in Europe. To discuss this issue, and what can be done about it, we were joined on the podcast by Douglas Murray, author of The Strange Death of Europe, and George Graham, Director of Humanitarian Policy at Save the Children.
Nicholas lays out the situation:
“The problem hasn’t gone away; it has shifted westwards to Italy, where things just go from bad to worse.
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