I saw Venus late last night from a north-west-facing window. Here is this evening’s sky.
Four complaints, in rising order of importance
You could look at this article, though you don’t have to, because I’m going to give the gist of it.
(1) “Securitisation.” English isn’t an agglutinating language like Turkish, but official gobbledygook pushes it that way.
(2) “.. prevent migrants reaching the UK.” The grammar is a cross between “preventing migrants from reaching the UK” and “prevention of migrants’ reaching the UK.”
(3) The photograph shows a patrol boat intercepting a small boat, perhaps between the coasts of Turkey and the Greek island Lesbos. But the article is about the land border between Iran and Turkey.
(4) The US and UK abandoned the civilian government of Afghanistan: abruptly pulled out military support, leaving the Taliban fanatics to re-impose their merciless regime – repression of women and journalists and intellectuals, floggings and stonings and amputations, house-to-house searches for those suspected of having cooperated with the infidel. Hundreds of refugees managed to find a way out and struggled across the thousand-mile length of Iran, a country almost as repressive, to the border with Turkey.
There they are met by Turkish border guards with “extreme violence and force… This includes the authorities firing live bullet rounds as people flee, including at the feet of children; beatings using rifle butts; robberies; humiliation tactics and pushing people back to the other side of the border.”
The UK Home Office – secretly, till now – encourages this with training, “equipment” (weapons), and funding of more than £3 million.
Anything to stop miserable exhausted innocent wretches from reaching safety in our back yard.
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