This is the opening to my essay on immigration and the debate about “broken Britain”, published in the Observer on 10 August 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. Is the UK “a rich country”, asked the economist Max Mosley earlier this year in a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). It might, he observed, seem “a surprising question to ask” about the world’s sixth largest economy. The answer, though, is not as “straightforward” […]

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