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

→ A decade ago, David Cameron fired the starting gun on the Brexit campaign, setting the referendum date for 23 June. Four months of political squabbling followed – including Bob Geldof and Nigel Fara

Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop

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

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It’s mid-morning at Hadrian’s Wall and the Romans have already lost again. Not to the Picts this time, or to the weather, or even to the slow grind of history. But to Lee Anderson. “Now this is what a