Book review: The Time to Act is Now, by Carola Rackete

This month the British government announced an illegal, inhumane and impractical new policy to deal with asylum seekers: give them a one-way ticket to Rwanda. There’s a lot to say about it, but I thought I’d comment by way of a book review.

Carola Rackete is a German ecologist, formerly ship captain, who found herself in the middle of a media storm in 2019. She had been arrested for saving the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean. Her ship, the charity-operated Sea Watch 3, had taken o...