If this is the best Britain can do for refugees, it’s sickening | Simon Jenkins

For someone who trumpeted the ‘big society’, David Cameron knows little of charity on the ground

Britons hate immigrants; Britons need immigrants. History has resolved this paradox through occasional charitable outbursts, when the country’s natural defences are besieged by desperate people seeking shelter. Charity conquers aversion, and the nation has always grown stronger in consequence.

The European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, welcomed the fact today that Europe was currently s...