The small boats are relentless – coming almost daily. The threat of yet another civil war in the Conservative Party looms as Tory backbenchers want Rishi Sunak’s Bill to stem the tide of migrant boats radically toughened up.
And last week over three hundred desperate people seeking refuge died after an overcrowded boat sunk off the coast of Greece.
The tragedies keep coming. Migration numbers are at their highest ever, and those who voted for Brexit demand answers. It is a Europe strafed by migration, climate change, technology and war.
An explosive and important new book, This is Europe, by the author and journalist Ben Judah, shows us how the continent is being remade by two great quests for freedom: Migrants from the global south coming in search of a better life, and those from the east, fleeing from war.
It details the human realities of the phenomenon once these migrants arrive in their new lands and how they are forced to adapt to make ends meet through the…