Racial justice is a public health issue, according to York University scholar Roberta Timothy. “The prolonged injustice of racism: from junior kindergarten through to post-secondary education, often leads to exacerbated health conditions,” she writes. Health indicators include higher infant mortality rates, prevalences of hypertension and incidents of breast cancer.

Every year, thousands of North Koreans manage to escape their country. Many head for South Korea, where they find themselves stigmatised and excluded – and so they head to third countries, where they try to claim asylum. But as Markus Bell explains, their claims are often unsuccessful – and the UK is particularly resistant to granting them refugee status.