Imagine how desperate people must be to get aboard a boat barely fit for purpose and then largely drift across some of the world’s most dangerous stretches of open water in the hope of finding a better life.

Throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, a lot of UK culture was based on what many saw as a “harmless bit of fun.”

There is a strange irony to the violence taking place in the UK.

Anyone who has applied for a job recently will have noticed certain words and acronyms that were not necessarily common before the coronavirus lockdowns.

When Sir Keir Starmer told an elated group of Labour Party faithful in the early hours of Friday, “We did it. Change begins now,” he did so in the knowledge that despite a landslide victory in the UK general election, he remains anything but safe.

Take a moment, think back to when you were a child, when you would wake up in the morning, your mum or dad yelling through the house to get up — “you’re late for school and breakfast is on the table.”

There is no avoiding the fact that, in recent years, the number of migrants on the move has been on the increase.

A combination of war, civil unrest and abject poverty have pushed many thousands to take enormous risks in the hope of finding a better life in another country.