This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Good morning. It's three minutes after ten, and I hope you had a good breakfast this morning. There are a few things in life

more satisfying and simple than a full belly and there are few countries one imagines in the

civilized and developed world, certainly in the top five economies in the world where children

routinely go hungry and yet that is the conversation that we find ourselves having today,

astonishingly,

really. And even more astonishing when you think about it, that the extension of free school

meals into the holidays doesn't happen automatically and normally, given that if people can't

put enough food on the table for their kids during term time, quite where the idea comes from

that they'll be miraculously able to do so during the school holidays when it will of course be even

harder to go to work for many people becomes one of those great bafflements of modern Britain.

But here's the bafflement that's got me most this morning. You, you, if you're kind enough

to listen to this program on a regular basis, you'll know that my

frustration at the ease with which people are persuaded to smash themselves over their head with

a frying pan is probably the defining feature of the program over the last few years. And I often

pick upon the verbal grenades that get lobbed in in the direction of people like me who think that we could all

probably benefit from making society a bit fairer. And one of them, of course, is the immigration

flavoured insistence that we should help our own first. You've heard it a million times, usually

in the context of discussing foreign aid or possibly giving shelter to refugees who've fled some of the most grisly countries on the planet.

Countries, of course, that are often rendered unbearable and close to uninhabitable,

but by military interventions that we have either been involved in as a nation or sold the guns that have created that

environment. But I digress. The bottom line is this. I want to know who is our own. Because

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