Yacine Ait Larbi

France is removing Comorian migrants from its overseas department of Mayotte. Yacine Ait Larbi argues that this is a dangerous approach. Policy-making, he says, should be sensitive to global change and, especially, to the impact of colonisation on communities across borders Nearly 80% of the population of the island of Mayotte, a French overseas department since 2011, lives below the poverty line.

School—some people love it, some people hate it … some people can even feel very indifferent to the whole experience. I enjoyed it for what it was: An opportunity to learn. I did well enough in my GCSEs, and then again in my A-Levels and made close friends I wouldn’t trade for the world. I can do basic mathematics, string together an effective sentence, and can read and understand the written word. So why did I leave college feeling a certain degree of unease?

Do I admit to a little bit of schadenfreude about the recent fate of “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams? Oh yeah, you bet. His blatantly racist rantings (“White people should get the hell away from Black people.”) actually just underscore a pattern of Adams’ recent behaviors for which he is now being brought to account. But do I also think most people are confused about the moral relationship between Scott Adams, the human being, and the product he creates, Dilbert? Also yes. Here’s what I mean.