It's a great book! 👏

Thanks Soumaya glad you're enjoying it!

Thank you glad you enjoyed it!

The Hong Kong/Ukraine numbers are counted separately to the normal asylum numbers (which includes Afghanistan asylum seekers). They are the "safe and legal routes" categories in the breakdown chart I included.

Thanks Paul! Nice to hear from you 👍

The picture does not do justice to how very hot the room was

I can't speak for why, since these decisions are way above my pay grade, but, out of curiosity, what have you got against watching it on YouTube?

All of which is to say, while the conventional wisdom in economic circles is that inflation has been tamed, don't discount the fact that a) most people don't feel that way and b) it might not be tamed, in a very real macroeconomic sense, anyway

It's very possible that tariffs push prices higher - even if they're primarily imposed in the US. Most big consumer electronics firms are global players, and if they're raising prices in the US they may v well do likewise in Europe too. This stuff is v hard to model...

That brings me to the second key underlying story, which is that there are all sorts of hard-to-quantify forces which could push inflation higher.
Take the war between Israel & Iran. That's already lifted oil prices recently (albeit they're still lower than earlier in the year)

Most people feel changes in prices over a much longer horizon than the 1yr rate economists/politicians/the media focus on.
It's not to say either measure is the "right" one.
But if you're primarily looking at the annual rate it can delude you into thinking inflation is tamed