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Welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, the assistant editor of The Spectator.

This week, I'll be discussing deportation with Douglas Murray and Don Flynn, the director of the Migrants' Rights Network.

James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson will consider whether Osborne can see off Boris,

and Mick Hume from Spiked and Jack May, one of the founders of the Steppford student website,

will join me to discuss whether politically correct students are now falling victim to the censorious climate they helped create.

First up, deportation. In this week's cover feature, Rod Little and Douglas Murray look at Britain

and Europe's approach to deportation. In Britain, we can't get rid of jihadis, sex, gang, ringleaders

and drug lords, so we try to deport old ladies, says Rod. In Europe it's worse, says Douglas.

Their attitude to migrants is suicidal. Thanks to Britain's geography and a few sensible decisions

by our government, Britain has so far been spared the worst of the migrant crisis, he argues.

But we should pity most of the other European countries because they are losing control,

not just of their borders, but of their civilisation and culture, the whole caboodle.

I'm now joined by Douglas Murray and Don Flynn, the director of the Migrants Rights Network,

to discuss whether Britain and Europe have a serious problem on their hands.

So, Douglas, Rod says in his piece that a number of foreign

criminals we managed to deport is going down year after year. But why is that?

Well, all sorts of things, of course. Partly is a problem within the system of Britain's own

making, partly a problem not of Britain's own making, but of course of the making of the European Union, various European treaties

that were signed up to various national and international agreements, which we're part of,

all of which, I think, as Rod stresses in his piece, make it essentially impossible to deport anyone for anything.

He gives a number of blackly hilarious examples of people who Britain cannot apparently get rid of. Although he does mention, of course,

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