• I DECIDED to roll out one of my art protest T-shirts again.

I put, in grim big black letters, “REFUGEE” on both the front and the back of what I was wearing in public.

I went around London with this from Shepherd’s Bush to Soho to Stratford. I was shocked by the cruelty, resentment, and fury that surrounded my decision to identify with the most vulnerable and marginal people in today’s turbulent world.

I was mocked, turned away, and savagely detested, everywhere.

The vicious British decision to deport refugees is provoking hate that’s now at a terrifying boiling point.

Here is a calculated, planned, scheme of repatriation that exceeds anything even the Conservative, and later Ulster Unionist, politician Enoch Powell envisaged.

Have we forgotten how mean and obstructive Britain was to Jewish refugees in the Second World War? I’m chastened and afraid.

I’d be very timid about wear­ing my “refugee” T-shirt again.

ZEKRIA IBRAHIMI, W12