Memo to the Home Office: a little humanity goes a long way | Kenan Malik

Delivering migrants to an offshore location is more about spectacle than solution

Dump them on Ascension Island. Or in Moldova. Imprison them in disused ferries. Build marine fences" across the Channel. Deploy water cannons to make huge waves to swamp their boats.

And so it goes on. All apparently ideas from Home Office brainstorming" sessions on how to deal with asylum seekers and cross-Channel undocumented migrants.