Philippe Sands: 'Alarm bells are ringing in this country'

The barrister has just won the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction. He explains what uncovering the truth about his family’s flight from the Nazis taught him about Britain todayBeing a barrister has its uses, Philippe Sands tells me. It means you can rustle up a speech seconds after learning that you’ve just won the UK’s top award for non-fiction. It also means you already have enough money, so can give the £30,000 prize to refugee charities, which is what Sands announc