Pick of the week’s correspondence

Beveridge is alive and living in modern Britain. Not the man, but the social problems he identified, known as his five giants: idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. It was Sir William Beveri

Political refugees, economic migrants and devoted Anglophiles are transforming the city one luxury apartment at a time, finds Will Hosie

Seniors in the U.S. and across Western developed nations are reaping a social security bonanza funded by younger workers and mountains of debt the old will never have to pay off

A reactionary radical’s case against progress

aeon.co In 2008, we “quietly passed a tremendous benchmark”, says Maryam Aslany. For the first time in history, the proportion of people living in the countryside fell below 50%. Today, the figure is