Hostile Formulas Will Not Fix The Problem In The Home Office

As I watched the appointment of the new Home Secretary this week, I could not help remembering little Irma during the Bosnian war. The five year old girl was being brought to the UK for medical treatment from Bosnia where she was wounded during the fighting there and the Prime Minister of the day, John Major was uncharacteristically emotional about her case.I had just arrived in the UK from another part of the former Yugoslavia, and had been watching in bewilderment the government’s reacti