Thanks, Jeffrey.


I note that the BBC News consistently describes the people now being held in a football stadium in Kos as 'migrants' as well. The BBC Charter is up for renewal, I suppose.

Robert

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Good point, Robert. It's seldom mentioned.


 "[...] the difference, say, between calling the people at Calais (or on the Greek islands)  ‘migrants’ and calling them ‘refugees’ … I think this is inevitably political, but, on its own, it is not going to effect political change."