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Hello and welcome to The Edition. Each week we look at some of the most important and intriguing issues in the week's magazine with the writers behind them. I'm Laura Prendergast.

This week, is there a

humane solution to Britain's migrant crisis? Plus, why is the WHO so down on e-cigarettes? And finally,

after a year and a half inside, are we all more angry than ever? First up, increasing numbers of people are crossing the channel,

and the British government seems to have no idea what to do about it,

says Douglas Murray in his cover piece.

The UK border force has effectively become an arm of the smugglers network, he says,

but of all the ways to run an asylum system,

a first over the channel in a dingy competition

is the worst. Charlotte Eager begs to differ.

Alpha migrants, as she calls them, a bright, brave and could help solve our labour crisis.

They both join me now.

Douglas, in this week's issue, you discussed Britain's new migrant crisis.

Can you start by setting up for listeners how bad things seem to have

got? Yes. Listeners will be aware that this has been a bubbling issue for some time in the UK as

across Europe. The UK is in some ways the hardest, well in many ways the hardest bit of

our continent to get to.

To get to the UK to make the illegal crossing across the channel, you have to have passed through multiple safe countries in the EU

and have paid the people smugglers thousands of pounds to get across the channel. And this process has sped up.

The numbers have increased significantly.

We're not at any level like that which say Greece or Italy has been at stages in the last decade,

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