Outside the box: A tale of two Calais and suffering beyond reason

In the dining room in a cheap hotel in Calais, a table of men are having breakfast. When they finish their coffee and croissants, these men – meaty, booted, uniformed, well-paid – will spend their shift driving around Calais and its bleak industrial surrounds.

They will confiscate the blankets of refugees who are living rough on scraps of wasteland, perhaps setting fire to their tents, or pepper spraying the insides of the tents to make them unusable.