After the destruction of the Calais Jungle — can we be part of the healing process?
I feel terrible guilt as I watch, from my comfortable middle class existence, the Jungle camp in Calais being ripped apart by armed police this week. Up to 10,000 refugees and migrants are being forcibly (according to charities on the ground, two-thirds wish to stay in the Jungle despite the onerous conditions) herded onto buses to be shuttled off to various reception areas across France over the next few days. The words “refugees” or “migrants” allow an easy dissociation fro
