Wouldn’t you if you were living in the Third World on 10 cents a day?

No doubt the Messiah himself would have been turned away from our borders as an undesirable. Unless he had a large donation to make to the ruling political party. Or was a Russian Oligarch, a money launderer seeking to wash his funds in the City of London, or a non domiciled person intent on the tax advantages Great Britain so obligingly offers the obscenely rich.

But then presumably such people arrive by private jet or super yacht and do not have to rely on toy inflatables provided by people smugglers to cross the treacherous waters of the English Channel.

Leaving aside any belief in the supernatural, if the accounts in the New Testament of the life of Jesus of Nazareth are true, what a man he was. Sadly, humanity has not improved in the last 2000 years despite his efforts.

Christmas is worth celebrating. Our collective behaviour is not.