One of the most common arguments made by those with a liberal approach to immigration and asylum, and one you will hear repeated at length on Question Time, is that people who come to these shores ‘are human beings, just like us.’ This mantra epitomises a certain kind of bland, shallow humanism, one which seems to think that platitudes and nobility of heart will suffice when it comes to important and consequential matters.

The problem with Polanski is that he is doubly blind. He’s not only an air-headed humanist but a third-rate Marxist

Zack Polanski is the embodiment of this simple-minded worldview, one which owes as much to Lennon as it does to Lenin. Imagine there’s no borders? That’s what much of his beatific politics boils down to. His unthinking approach to immigration was laid bare in an interview with the Times this weekend. ‘We’ve seen situations where people from Ukraine have rightly been welcomed into the country with open arms,’ he said. ‘But where is that same hospitality to the Sudanese people, Eritrean people, people from Yemen?’

This encapsulates his callow worldview, which says simply that ‘we are all the........

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