Don't Like it Here? Go Ahead and Die

There are, it appears, certain circumstances in which evoking the threat of Islamist terrorism will not get you a free pass and all the toys you could want. One such circumstance is being an asylum seeker instead of a policeman. A Nigerian with both physical and mental health problems, who claims that his life is in danger from a fundamentalist group, overstayed his visa and somehow managed to remain unmoved even by the Powellite Pantechnicon Programme. He was imprisoned this year and went on hunger strike, and is now medically unfit to be kept in detention. The Home Office, as one might expect, has responded by keeping him in detention and issuing staff with an "end of life plan". As taxpayers, we can only hope that the arrangements for bodily disposal will be as economic as possible.