What is happening in Libya and the Mediterranean is our fault. And there is no shifting the public’s attention to the NGOs, (as the TV programme Report attempted to do in last week’s controversial episode), because the issue, as we will never tire of repeating, is Libya. Also: what “help them at home” actually means; the lack of a plan for migrants in Italy; the tragedy of the “Dublined” in Europe; the indelible shame of Manus Island; why it is wrong to return the Rohingya to Myanmar. Finally, we remember the writer and journalist Alessandro Leogrande.
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