Justifying the inhumane and repugnant by saying ‘give me a better idea’ is a headlong leap into the abyss
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When I was a civil servant, it was always drummed into ministers that – whatever they said about the arms trade – the answer should never be ‘if we didn’t sell arms to country A, somebody else would’. This is a piece about refugees. It’s a message that seems to have been lost today. But […]