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It’s very good news that the thousands of children sent to the British colonies in the mid 20th century, only to suffer terribly at the hands of those supposed to care for them, are about finally receive some small recognition.

It also means that another group of migrant children, taken against their will and abused in government institutions only have forty or fifty years to wait for their own apology.

And there there’s… These children shouldn’t worry either. We as a nation will one day – sometime mid-century if the convention is followed properly – also look back on their treatment with a sense of shame. Today, not so much.