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...refugee as we know now with all the people trying to enter Europe from places like Syria and Afghanistan. Lots of countries try very hard to keep hold of regions that would like more autonomy but nonetheless there is that tension. So movement is easy for some, less easy for others. Andy Morris If I could ask you about some of your selections for the book as well. I mean I...

...refugees and many more besides. Labour has proved inept at challenging such attacks and indeed on many issues is close to the Tories that to its key heartlands (as results in Scotland have demonstrated only too starkly). The UK is an ever more divided and unequal place; Scotland is an ever more unequal and divided place too. A key enduring lesson of the 2014 Scottish...

...asylum: “he walks on all fours, picks up everything he finds in his teeth, and in the same way he uses his teeth to dig up carrots, roots, etc., that he then carries to a corner and swallows, without standing up.” Another source describes a patient who “thinks she has become a dog, a bull, a man: all the parts of her body are deformed, enlarged: she doesn’t...

...asylum seekers and so forth and in that context that is one of the reasons why it has become a very important issue again. Mary Ruth Lister talks about citizenship in relation to membership of a community, but are we all equal in the community? In recent years there have been many challenges to the idea of universal citizenship, the idea that we are all equal before the...

...asylum, the workhouse, as well as the prison, were designed and built to promote social stability when traditional ideas and practices appeared outmoded. Innovations in prison design, such as Bentham's panopticon, were to instil values of obedience and compliance as well as to control prison populations through constant surveillance. Writers like Michel Fucault give an...