PETER HITCHENS: Border chief had one job ��� and he didn���t believe in it

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

I like borders and I have always been glad to live on an island guarded by deep salt water. In the end it is the sea, and the Navy we used to have, which have kept us safe all these centuries from tyrants and conquerors.

I have visited 57 countries, and also lived with my family in two nations apart from this one, my home. I am absolutely not afraid of the world abroad and I think we have much to learn from other peoples. But in the end, I like i...