A response to today’s horrific news from Essex. This morning’s news – the immeasurably insensitive “39 dead bodies found in lorry” – came into my work inbox alongside an email about a new Channel 4 show called “Smuggled”, wherein eight British citizens have their passports removed from them and attempt to get back into the…
Making Home
The theme of this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland is “Making Art, Making Home”, and it resonates deeply. I left Calais pretty much one year ago, and have now been working at Scottish Refugee Council almost six months. Getting the job was hugely exciting, it’s exactly what I hoped to be doing, but it came with…
“One day it will change, I have to believe that”
I’m still writing regularly, but it’s become very introspective, which has been extremely interesting for myself but I don’t particularly feel the need to share everything that I’ve discovered. It’s good to keep some cards close. However, this blog’s still here, just ticking away, a little time capsule of Calais. Recently, I took a case…
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