The Inexplicable and the Unpalatable

The reasons behind the now imminent breakdown of relations with China remains to me, at least, obscure. It is surely no more than a statement of the obvious that, in theory, at least this country, like all the other 150 or so in the world, has the right to decide who should come in and who should not.

The current mass migration of people to Europe, and to this country from Zimbabwe, demonstrates that it is a right which is not, and perhaps never could be, absolute. It may also be worth noting the muddle that the UK has got itself into over this very kind of issue with some part of the population resentful of migrants and others welcoming them.