There is no refugee crisis. There is a small, semi-permanent flow of people seeking safety and hope here, through various forms of transport, from countries lost to war or economic and societal breakdown.

What we're seeing now is depressingly familiar. The grim cold-hearted cynicism of Farage, the craven desperation of a government signed up to the nationalist agenda, the gullible irresponsibility of TV news crews helping them invent a crisis.

Appalling godforsaken fucking nonsense. A complete abdication of basic moral responsibility.

The first step in countering it is to reject the frame of the debate. The whole idea there is a crisis is wrong. Don't accept it.