First Time in Paradise

A good friend who is a high school teacher, told me recently about one of her students who arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in October 2020. The teenager had arrived at Dover in a dingy with three other children following a dangerous cross-channel journey from France. This followed an epic journey from war ravaged Sudan to reach Europe in the first place. As an unaccompanied asylum-seeker, he was settled in Scotland and arrived here just as winter was setting in...