The Economist.

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I'm Jason Palmer.

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Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In an age of satellites and cutting-edge aircraft and drones big and small,

you might think balloons are the military technology only of the past.

Nope. They too have had high-tech makeovers, and armed forces are using ever more of them.

And Gillian Tyndall was a historian who believed that by illuminating the lives of ordinary people, she illuminated so much more. She saw the layers of the past all around her, in the streets she walked, in the houses she visited.

Our obituries editor remembers her.

But first...

Stop the box.

Stop them, much, TV. Stop them.

Why at first?

Riot high.

In recent months, there have been protests and even riots about housing asylum seekers in hotels.

Regular migration provoked strong reaction too.

Not to mention the rise of the populist reform party.

Many attribute its success in part to its hardline approach on migrants,

all of which spurred Britain's Labour government this week

to unveil its own reforms that represent a dramatic shift in Britain's stance on asylum

and immigration. I wish it were possible to say that there isn't a problem here, that there's

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