Thought for the Week: Empathy

Catherine Henderson reflects on empathy

by Catherine Henderson 23rd October 2015

These days, when I’m talking to people, I tend to bring up the subject of refugees. It’s interesting how they respond. My plumber, who makes a point of employing ex-offenders and those recovering from addiction, expressed a view that crops up a lot: what we should be doing is ‘looking after our own kind’. But why this phrase: ‘our own kind’?