5    For a rigorous counter-argument to the prevailing opinion on the ‘stolen generation’, see Keith Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 3: The Stolen Generations 1881–2008, Macleay Press, 2009.

6    See, for instance, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ‘Apology to Australia’s indigenous peoples’, Australian Parliament, 13 February 2008.

7    Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past, Temple University Press, 2015, p. xi.

8    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ‘Apology on behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools system’, 11 June 2008.

9    Chantal Delsol is especially interesting on this point. See especially ‘Historical forgiveness in question’, Hungarian Review, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 72–80.

10    See for examples Roger Sandall’s book The Culture Cult, Westview Press, 2001.

11    Consider the statue in the centre of Columbus Circle in New York.

12    David Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 246.

13    Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, p. 369.

14    ‘More cities celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day” amid effort to abolish Columbus Day’, Washington Post, 12 October 2015.

15    Ta-Nehisi Coates, ‘The case for reparations’, The Atlantic, June 2014.

16    Consider the Intelligence Squared debate in London, ‘We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values’, 9 October 2007, where this claim was made by the authors Charles Glass and William Dalrymple (video available on YouTube).

17    See David Cameron’s response to question by Kenneth Clarke, House of Commons Hansard, 19 October 2015.

18    ‘His blood be on us, and on our children’. King James Bible, Matthew 27:25.

19    Pope Paul VI, ‘Nostra Aetate’.

20    See Pascal Bruckner, La Tyrannie de la penitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental, Grasset & Fasquelle, 2006.

21    Andy Beckett, ‘Heirs to the slavers’, The Guardian, 2 December 2006.

22    ‘My ancestor traded in human misery’, BBC News, 23 June 2006.

23    Karsten Nordal Hauken, ‘Jeg ble voldtatt av en mann’, NRK, 6 April 2016.

THE PRETENCE OF REPATRIATION

1    Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795), George Allen & Unwin, 1903, pp. 155–6.

2    ‘Orbán accuses Soros of stoking refugee wave to weaken Europe’, Bloomberg, 30 October 2015.

3    The Atlantic, December 1994.

LEARNING TO LIVE WITH IT

1    ‘Swallow fears and shop, Parisians told’, The Times (London), 21 November 2015.

2    ‘Norway offers migrants a lesson in how to treat women’, The New York Times, 19 December 2015.

3    ‘Polizei fühlt sich bei Migranten-Kriminalität gegängelt’, Die Welt, 24 January 2016.

5    ‘Attivista stuprata da un migrante “Gli altri mi chiesero di tacere”’, Corriere Della Sera, 25 September 2015.

7    Ipsos Mori migration and refugees poll, 11 August 2016, https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3771/Global-study-shows-many-around-the-world-uncomfortable-with-levels-of-immigration.aspx.

8    ‘Aliens find a European gateway at Spain’s coast’, The New York Times, 18 October 1992.

9    Tom Bower, Broken Vows: Tony Blair and the Tragedy of Power, Faber & Faber, 2016, p. 173.

10    ‘Terror suspect protected’, The Sun, 8 August 2016.

11    ‘Müssen wir Angst vor dem Islam haben, Frau Merkel?‘, Bild, 10 September 2015. Original TV clip via Swiss television on http://www.srf.ch/play/tv/news-clip/video/merkel-ueber-die-angst-vor-einer-islamisierung?id=18886c54-51e4-469b-8a98-45f1a817219b.

TIREDNESS

1    See, among many other works, Byung-Chul Han’s Müdigkeitsgesellschaft (2010).

2    Friedrich Nietzsche, Writings from the Late Notebooks, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, ed. Rudiger Bittner, trans. Kate Sturge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 267.