When I googled for E.M.Forster’s Only connect Prose with Passion, I came across his quotation:
“The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.”
It’s this hypocrisy that gets to me. The “in the interest of the child” that ignores
- the traumatisation every separation causes a child
- the pain afflicted on children, parents, families
- the cruelty committed with ‘legitimacy’. More
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