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Give me shelter

It’s been a torrid year. Covid has changed our lives in so many intimate and unsettling ways it’s no surprise the pandemic has dominated the news agenda. But a further cruel effect of this is to drive from our attention other stories, other developing disasters.

Last February I was in Bangladesh, spending time in the refugee camp for the Rohingya who fled their homes in Myanmar in 2017, following violent persecution. The exodus of

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