Gary Lineker’s impartiality is irrelevant in comparison with what he was pointing at: the cruelty, the inhumanity and the shame inherent in the government’s immigration policies (“It’s taken a brave football star to inject morality into our shaming debate on migrants”, Comment, last week).
The Calais crossings are the tip of an iceberg, they are just the beginning; the pressures of climate change, proxy wars, and capitalisation of the world will increasingly force peoples into mass migration. The declining quality and effectiveness of our national government, especially post-Brexit, reflects the increasing irrelevance and worse, the egotism, of isolationism.
