After all, some might say (and many more might think), what can one expect from savages?

Brutal dictators go unpunished because their interests are protected by large powers with stakes in their natural resources.

Is there a Chinese or a Muslim Montaigne ready to write that the Indian savages may be wiser than us, as Montaigne did in 16th century France?

Indeed, to continue to fail the world s at risk children is to deliver a verdict of wanton inhumanity against ourselves, for we are a knowing party to an entirely preventable mass destruction of human life.

Yet another damaging myth, perpetuated by shocking images of refugees swarming through border fences or attempting to climb onto trains in Calais, is that Fortress Europe is under assault by waves of barbarians. This is wrong on two levels.