The Reluctant Exiles

A mere feather’s brush of personal experience can make a situation more vividly clear than a whole lorry-load of statistics. Everybody in Britain has heard about “tax exiles”: pop singers, actors, playboys who live abroad to escape the confiscatory British tax system. But ordinary people, although many of them nowadays think vaguely that it would be nice to emigrate, don’t often take seriously the possibility that they too might be forced to go abroad.

Mr. Lejeune is NR’s London correspondent.