On the subject of refugees

Over 120 economists - some very important - signed an open letter to the government about the refugee crisis.

http://economists4refugees.org.uk/

It is the first time that such a large group of economists have criticised UK government immigration policy, and follows other open letters to the prime minister from the UK’s 350 top judges and lawyers, and 27 charities and NGOs including Oxfam, Amnesty International and the Refugee Council.

David Cameron’s government has agreed to take up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years, from the camps on the borders of the war-torn country. More than 1,000 have arrived so far.

The Guardian.

My old friend Dr Brendan Burchell may have been one of the instigators ... he was certainly a signatory. Here on the BBC  today (a show on BBC 1 called The Big Questions) he iterated the economists' case.  I feel very proud of him for doing this as at the same time he is busy being Director of this and Editor of that at Cambridge University.

http://bbc.in/1SBSUiC