To see market forces in their rawest form, head to the beaches of France. The people-smugglers manning the Channel crossings are as canny with their pricing as any Uber algorithm. Conditions a bit rough? Put on a special offer: if adults pay full price, kids go free.
Last week Priti Patel published her New Plan for Immigration — and confirmed that this is the issue on which left and right are most viscerally divided.
The left sees a government (and in particular a home secretary) that is determined to make the most miserable people on earth more miserable still, for example by giving successful asylum seekers a new “temporary protection status” rather than an automatic right to remain, limiting their rights to claim benefits and
