Well, my friends, I don’t want to be rude but I am inclined to tell all these Britain-bashers to bog off. Just about everyone in this country has been harrowed by the images from the beaches of Turkey; everyone feels for those who are fleeing torture and misery in Syria, or whose homes and lives have been wrecked. I read a quite astonishing story of a man who had walked on crutches for hundreds of miles – having been wounded in two separate bombings – to get to Hungary. These people deserve our admiration, our support, our generosity, and we should do everything we reasonably can to welcome refugees. But to all those who say the British response has been too cautious, I want to enter the following points in our defence.