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They are our last truly public spaces, but the scale of their neglect by this government is becoming clear, says freelance journalist Dan Hancox
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The actor knew her father had served in the merchant navy, but it wasn’t until she read about Britain’s mistreatment of Chinese seamen in the 40s that she understood just how much his experiences had shaped her family
Chinese seamen at a hostel in Liverpool in May 1942. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images Letters Fri 28 May 2021 11.15 EDT Last modified on Fri 28 May 2021 11.38 EDT We congratulate Dan Hancox, and the family campaigners who helped him, for bringing into the open at last the story of the Chinese seamen secretly rounded up and forcibly deported from Liverpool as soon as their services were no longer required for the war effort (The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war, 25 May). Nothing can compensate for the suffering inflicted on them, an...