“This tremendous aggregate of a book has many of the characteristics of a Festschrift assembled to honour some Great Influencer”: so, in 1973, the architectural historian Priscilla Metcalf began the f

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Alan Manning Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And how to make it better 416pp. Polity. £25. When I last reviewed a book about immigration for the TLS (February 23, 2024), I pointed out that 1.18 million