I’m v proud to have published this beautiful, but mournful essay by the inestimable Tanjil Rashid. The age of migration is coming to an end. The age of deportation is upon us — threatening the essence of what it means to be British. You won’t read anything better this week👇

Exciting times for me as my book arrives!

‘Profound and intellectually scintillating’
—Anthony Seldon

‘A tour de force’
—Matthew d’Ancona

‘Political history at its finest’
—Peter Foster

‘Will stand for many years as the authoritative political history’
—David Kynaston

New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday.

🚨 🚨 🚨 This week’s @NewStatesman online now! @AndrewMarr9 on a set of crises this government — and perhaps British social democracy itself — can no longer afford. The sirens are beginning to sound🚨 🚨 🚨