Below are the conclusions for each of the opinion texts we have examined today. Read them and answer the questions that follow.

Text A

Give 400,000 jobless fatties nearly a billion quid and by next week all of it will be in the hands of Allied Breweries, Ladbrokes and Pablo Escobar. You can’t change that.

Trying to do something about this is as impossible as deciding that life would be fairer if everyone were good-looking. Yes. But some of us aren’t. And there’s nothing that can be done to change that.

So, Mrs May. Here’s a tip. The next time there are riots, don’t spray anyone with money. Spray them instead with a water cannon.

Text B

So this is why, when it comes to MP Stella Creasy’s amendment for Britain finally to make good its offer to home the unaccompanied child refugees in Calais, I can support it wholly unemotionally, as politicians and governments should. I agree that, in the end, it is useless to be emotional about refugees. Let’s talk about how human beings do have a worth – and whenever we ignore this, others take terrifying advantage of our blindness. Yes. For the sake of us all, let us be pragmatic.