Angelina Jolie has criticised the Western attitude to immigration, particularly for refugees trying to flee wartorn countries.

A photograph was recently printed in the United Nations magazine ‘Refugees’ showing a couple relaxing on a Spanish beach while a washed-up corpse of a black man lay nearby.

Angelina, a UN goodwill ambassador, was disgusted when she saw the picture and wrote into the magazine: “We’ll never know who he was or why he ended up there and the couple on the beach apparently couldn’t care less. Someone’s son, someone’s brother, or someone’s loved one. In fact, you or me, if we had been born at another time, or in another place.”

“Many have also died trying to get into the United States and Australia but we don’t notice.”

“I have been to some of the [wartorn] countries, or to their neighbours, where most of the refugees remain. It is a truly humbling experience, a shocking eye-opener.

“It has made me realise that we are all - myself included - behaving like the couple sitting under their umbrella on the beach, gazing studiously out to sea.”