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& #39;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& #39;t accept it.