Book of the week

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

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

Figures for the level and rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are quoted ubiquitously, including in this magazine. They are widely agreed to tell us something of importance. But there is a

LETTERS

Morgan Jones No Second Chances The inside story of the campaign for a second EU referendum 320pp. Biteback. £20. On an autumn day in 2019, hundreds of thousands of people marched through central Londo

Some good news for the US economy. The Federal deficit shrank for the fourth month in a row. Employment is picking up. The economy is booming. The Fox News team is comfortably convinced that when the