We fall into three camps on the great migrant crisis.

Some think those fighting to board UK-bound lorries and trains in Calais are lured here by our State hand-outs, and must be repelled at all costs. I suspect the majority think along those lines.

Others see them as the tragic human flotsam yearning to build better futures for themselves in Britain, and that we should help them. The Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Trevor Willmott, thinks so, saying: ‘We need to rediscover what it is to be human, and that every human being matters.’

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On Friday night migrants made another attempt to rush the Channel Tunnel but were beaten back by police with tear gas. They then staged a sit-in on the main lorry route to the tunnel, blocking vehicles for the entire night until they were dispersed by riot police

Those in the middle sympathise with the migrants, flinch from the harsh, dismissive way in which they’re described, but think we’re already too overpopulated and that this is a problem which must be addressed in the migrants’ countries of origin.

We elect governments in the hope they’ll solve such problems for us, as well as steer between extremes, finding solutions we can live with which don’t impose unacceptable burdens on the rest of us. Neither Tory nor Labour governments have managed to do so with immigration.

Most of all, we trust governments to anticipate such crises in advance, and put together measures which prevent the kind of horrifying scenes we see each night on TV from Calais. Neither the Tory nor the Labour lot have done that, either.

Home Secretary Theresa May says migrants must understand that our streets are not paved with gold. A tired cliché.

Migrants Adam, right, and Muhammed, both from Sudan, at the Best Western Hotel in Charnock Richard, Lancashire, have been put up in a double ensuite room, usually priced at £70 a night

But some of those who get here are berthed in £70-a-night hotels. The Government’s own website promises housing and cash to asylum seekers — worth £35,000 a year to couples with children.

Writing about the crisis with her French opposite number interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve — more likely it’s the work of a civil service scrivener — Ms May says: ‘The nations of Europe will always provide protection for those genuinely fleeing conflict or persecution.

'However, we must break the link between crossing the Mediterranean and achieving settlement in Europe for economic reasons.’

Easier said than done, you might think. Ms May adds: ‘We must be relentless in our pursuit of those callous criminals who are encouraging vulnerable people to make this journey in the first place.

‘That is why we are also working closely together to tackle the criminal gangs that are making profit out of people’s misery.’

Home Secretary Theresa May says migrants must understand that our streets are not paved with gold

How many of the ‘callous criminals’ have been caught? The Mail’s Sue Reid was taken by the mayor of Teteghem, near Calais, to a lock-up garage in which 20 cars with UK number plates are stored. They were confiscated from people traffickers, says Mayor Franck Dhersin.

He added: ‘This is a big criminal organisation and the traffickers at the camp have guns and knives. They get furious when the police lift their cars onto a transporter and take them away. But the officers have guns, too, and threaten to use them if the gang members are violent.’

‘Get furious’ when their cars are taken? ‘Threaten police with their guns and knives’? If they threaten the police with guns and knives, how do they avoid arrest and prosecution?

Despite Ms May’s attempt to persuade us that the UK and French governments have matters under control, the migrant crisis at Calais is something else altogether.

Don’t the anarchic scenes remind you of post-nuclear war films, like Mad Max, where all civil order has broken down?

All such crises usually give way in the end to other alarms and excitements. But given the way of the world now, with so many thousands determined to migrate, this will be a recurring problem.

The end of great empires has given way to an era of looser world governance, in which the possession of weapons combined with the adoption of religious piety (Islam at present, but why not Catholicism or Protestantism tomorrow?) is considered enough to establish a new nation or caliphate ruled by a supreme religious or political leader.

A result is great displacements of poor-but-mobile people, dispersed into a world in which the great democracies must work out what on earth to do about them. Result: nightly struggles at Calais as many of them seek to get to England.

How should we react? ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ — the government’s advice in 1939 — is currently the only offer.

As each day passes, my question grows more urgent: why doesn’t Labour awake from its Jeremy Corbyn-induced trance and beg acting leader Harriet Harman to enter the leadership ballot?

GOOD LUCK REFORMING A BUNCH OF SNOUTS-IN-THE-TROUGH PEERS! The exposure of life peer Lord Sewel for snorting cocaine in the company of two prostitutes rumbles on, much to the embarrassment of those who seek to preserve the House of Lords’ status quo. Inevitably, there are calls for Lords ‘reform’. All peers over 80 years of age — there are 140 — should be pensioned off, is one suggestion (Sewel’s 69, by the way). Another is that the huge, ermine-clad herd — all 760 of them — should be culled. Or serve for 15 years, not life. Life peer Lord Sewel before he was exposed for snorting cocaine in the company of two prostitutes An unnamed ‘noble’ explains: ‘We cannot act as though the Sewel scandal never happened. We have to show the Lords is being reformed and more relevant.’ Some hope! Adding to the comedy, David Cameron is about to announce his latest list of new life peers. Allegedly, it includes the Ultimo underwear owner Michelle Mone. The PM is reported to be ‘at war with top civil servants over his plans to stuff the House of Lords with Tory donors’. He has put forward a list of almost 40 Conservative supporters to be elevated to the peerage. They’ll include businessmen who’ve donated big sums to the party. Isn’t this ‘cash for coronets’? Certainly not. We are told — by whichever party raises their donors to the peerage — that the cash had nothing to do with the ennoblement. Sewel snorting cocaine. His exposure has intensified the debate about reforming the House of Lords Would there be concern over the new wave of peers if there hadn’t been the scandal over Sewel? Yes, but it wouldn’t have been so intense. Sewel’s undignified behaviour made a mockery of lordly airs and graces. While most of us do not take their flummery seriously, we’d like to think they have some respect for an ancient institution that pays them up to £300 a day just for making an appearance. An obscure Labour Party placeman, Sewel’s arrogant boastfulness, contempt for elected politicians and general attitude of entitlement was more shocking than him slipping on the brassiere discarded by one of his companions. The powers-that-be will tinker with reform, but it won’t make much difference. The Lords owes its continued existence to the greed of politicians who seek to prolong their lives on the public payroll and their need to recompense rich, title-hunting creeps who fund their parties. Advertisement

Cara Delevingne is accused of being rude to the hosts of TV show Good Day Sacramento after claiming to Californian broadcasters that she hadn’t bothered to read the book on which her new film, Paper Towns, was based.

While her new TV chums were being treated for shock, Ms Delevingne, 22 (pictured below), admitted she had in fact checked out the tome in question, saying: ‘Just found this book. It’s awesome,’ and sharing a photo ‘selfie’ with the volume in question. As you do.

A year ago, eccentric, bushy-browed Cara seemed like a tremulous fawn compared with the scowling modelling-world lioness, Kate Moss. No more.

Cara Delevingne during the awkward interview on a local morning show called Good Day Sacramento to promote her film Paper Towns, during which she joked she hadn't read the book it was based on

Sir Elton John’s mother, Sheila, 90, flaunts her friendship with his so-called ‘lookalike’, Paul Bacon, 54.

Apparently, she’s fallen out with her son over his partner, David Furnish. Isn’t it chastening to think all of Sir Elton’s millions can’t protect him from so gross but unstoppable an intrusion?

David Cameron is attacked for talking about a ‘swarm’ of migrants heading here.

Several years ago, the then Home Secretary David Blunkett was criticised for saying some parts of Britain were being ‘swamped’ by migrants.

But at least Blunkett travelled to Sangatte to find out what was really going on over the Channel. Cameron should do the same this week.

The mushroom cloud from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

Hiroshima (the atom-bombing of same) is in the news because of the 70th anniversary on Thursday.

Up to 180,000 people were killed, some of them ‘vaporised’ — ie, removed without trace from the Earth.

The Americans say the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, then Nagasaki, saved countless lives, forcing Japan to surrender.

Maybe, but would the U.S. have used an atom bomb against German targets?

State school pupils now enjoy privileged access to ‘elite’ universities, reports the Mail.