The news report immediately recalled the death of Polonius in Hamlet: stabbed behind the arras. Indeed, there are those who would claim that Ukrainian refugees are being virtually stabbed in the back. Apologists for the government might claim that they are merely exhibiting political correctness, treating refugees with white faces to the same hostile environment as people of colour.
Arras is 109.2 km from Calais, a fraction less than the distance to Lille from the seaport. It seems that Ukrainian refugees have headed for Calais. One wonders whether Arras was chosen because there is already a French immigrant reception centre in the town.
Whatever, something will have to be done about the Calais "jungle". It seems from a current Radio 4 investigation, that armed smuggling gang leaders, holding British passports, are able to move without hindrance between Calais and England, and that guns are everywhere in the encampment.
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