This is the week in which we should all — in collective shame — commit to memory the name of Mercy Baguma. On Saturday, this 34-year-old asylum seeker, originally from Uganda, was found dead in her flat in Govan, south Glasgow , beside her malnourished baby, who was immediately hospitalised. It appears that, in the sixth richest country in the world, a desperate young woman died of nothing more complex than extreme poverty, and that her one-year-old son would have met the same appalling fate had the sound of his crying not been heard. Читать дальше...