True. My grandparents were only just allowed in after many rebuttals in August 1939. They lived in refuges, with my mum as a baby. Then my granddad was interned for 2 years on the Isle of Man. https://twitter.com/levvity/status/1292385672431579136

This was a family who'd lost everything. Most of their relatives were in the process of being killed. Still they were treated with suspicion and imprisonment. But nonetheless, I remain pathetically grateful to the UK for the sheer fact they were let in.

And that fact has left me with the belief that this is a basically tolerant welcoming country. It's got shaken a lot that belief, in recent years, but it's still in there.