Are we living in The Truman Show?

Like all Irish people living outside of Ireland – and everyone living everywhere other than their place of birth - I am an immigrant. Like Paddington Bear. The father of my children was the child of immigrants, so my kids are half Irish, half British Asian via South Africa. If you were to DNA test them, they’d be Celtic Dravidians, or Dravidian Celts. Whatever. They’re Brighton born and bred.

When my daughter was 13, she was randomly assaulted in a park by a troubled kid – they didn’t know each other, had never spoken, never met until the moment of impact – who screamed at her to go back to her country.