This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column

Whose fault is it that so many of our fellow creatures have drowned in the Mediterranean on the way to Britain? Whose fault will it be when many more do so, crying out for help that will not come, in the future?

As usual, I first wrote about this subject long before it was fashionable to do so.

The great migration of the poor and desperate towards the rich north is one of the most troubling and frightening things happening in the world today.