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As a measure of how serious this problem is a new report from Europol, the EUs law enforcement agency, also says that migrant smuggling is now comparable to the illegal drugs market.

Across the continent people are furious at the huge number of migrants who have arrived, the strain they have placed on resources and the deliberate reluctance of European leaders not least unelected Eurocrats to confront these issues.

It is no coincidence that in Holland, France and Germany anti-migrant parties are storming up the polls.

The European establishments attempt to dismantle national borders has been a major factor in exacerbating this problem.

The Schengen agreement which eradicates controls between member states has made it easy for migrants to dodge the authorities.

Meanwhile far too little has been done to protect the EUs external border.

Some European leaders have to their credit expressed concern at the failure to take border security seriously.

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But the unwieldy nature of the Brussels bureaucracy means tougher rhetoric has not been translated into action.

The EU is a flawed institution that has proved totally incapable of getting the migrant crisis under control.

However its most important figures continue to refuse to accept the need for fundamental reform. What a relief we will shortly be getting out.

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A young boy cries at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni

In January more than 80,000 NHS patients were stuck on a trolley for at least four hours waiting for a hospital bed.

Labour will tell you this is all due to a lack of funding but the reality is that the health service faces a range of challenges.

Social care problems have caused elderly people to be stuck in hospital when they would be better off elsewhere.

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There are also too many people going to hospital when they only need to see a GP.

And then there are the demographic challenges: the extra burden placed on the health service by migration and our ageing population.

Just throwing more money at the NHS is not and never will be a proper solution to these issues.

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At Crufts the dogs of war have been let slip.

A rule that ribbons cannot be put in the dogs hair has sparked fury with one judge complaining that she has been harassed by a number of overseas exhibitors.

Lets hope their bark is worse than their bite.

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