Saavedra was born in Lima, Peru, in 1987, the son of a security guard and an accountant. His family moved to Boston, nuevo teclado tfue Massachusetts, in search of work when Carlos was 12 and his brother Rodrigo was four. “Our parents told us it would be hard but that we were doing it to make a better life for our family,” Saavedra says. “We had tourist visas, then we overstayed them and became undocumented six months later.”

“Tesla was already under pressure at the back end of last week, so the S&P story has made matters worse,” said David Madden, analyst at CMC Markets. “Despite the recent aggressive sell-off, the stock is still up 325% year-to-date.”

“It was the biggest moment in immigrant rights in 26 years,” Saavedra says. Last week, at the president’s State of the Union address, five undocumented student leaders were among the invited audience, one of them a personal guest of the first lady.

Tesla aims to raise $5bn in its biggest issue of new stock in a decade Read moreTesla, with Elon Musk as chief executive, has been one of the biggest winners of recent stock market rallies as investors have piled into tech firms during the pandemic. The company’s share price surged 74.1% in August alone and is up about 400% this year. The rise has made Tesla more valuable than some of the world’s largest automakers, including Toyota and Volkswagen.

• I am not a vicar. I used to be one; but I retired more than five years ago. On Sunday mornings nowadays I sit with my wife on the back pew of our local church, carefully avoiding her sharp right elbow, which is always poised to dig me in the ribs if she thinks I am about to make a comment. Like most of the congregation, I dress casually.

Last week the US released new unemployment figures which suggest that the pace of recovery from the coronavirus recession is slowing. And over the weekend Donald Trump said he was looking to curb the US’s economic relationship with China, an announcement that could herald more trade disputes ahead.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest A crane dismantling a tower in the oldest corner of the Sellafield siteElsewhere in this oldest corner of the site – which resembles a rundown industrial estate – is a US grain-style silo filled with nuclear waste. Huge metal doors have been fitted in its side to allow material to be mechanically removed – but retrieval work is not expected to start until next year.

* Deborah Moggach’s Something to Hide is published by Vintage.

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Chosen by John O’Farrell

Comedy in all its forms seems to date much more quickly than other genres, so it is something of a miracle that an unambitious travelogue published in 1889 should still feel so fresh and funny today. Like the Thames navigation itself, Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is unchallenging, charming and meandering; the narrator disappears up anecdotal backwaters and lingers at riverside inns to spin another irrelevant yarn. You can smell the river on every page.

There is also a great humanity to the narrator: if he is critical of others, he is equally critical of himself. His exasperation with his friend Harris performing a comedy song is hilarious. Harris can never remember the words, and the description of the assembled party guests, so eager to laugh uproariously at the end of each verse but then denied the moment because the singer keeps stopping, is a window into the determination of Victorian England to remain jolly no matter what.

I regularly cycle past the house in Chelsea Bridge Road, where Jerome wrote this classic, and seeing the blue plaque always brings a smile to my face as I picture him staring out of the window of the top-floor flat, the Thames just about visible. And I imagine him writing about pleasure-boating today, and all the posh married couples swearing at each other in their huge fibre-glass cabin cruisers as they struggle to moor up beside the Harvester Inn, Cookham.

The sharp sell-off came after S&P Global, the company behind the S&P 500 index of top US companies, passed over Tesla for inclusion in the index – a move that had been expected to give Tesla’s share price another boost as index-fund investors added the stock to their portfolios. Etsy, the online marketplace for homemade products was a winner, gaining a place in the index.

The Church of England tradition is one of tremendous flexibility. The discussion at the general synod about the wearing or non-wearing of robes was no big deal. It was simply legalising what has become common practice in the expression of that flexibility.

* Bridget Christie’s A Book for Her is published by Arrow.

The Jeeves series by PG Wodehouse

Chosen by Sebastian Faulks

The only book that’s ever literally made me fall out of bed laughing is Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn. I read it when I was about 26 and working on an old Fleet Street newspaper very like the one described in the novel. The passage that inflicted lifelong lumbar spine damage was old Eddie Moulton’s swansong, in which he remembers the great journalists of the past. One day, I really must get round to suing the author for all my osteopath bills.

Before that, The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis made me snort, shudder and chortle with embarrassed glee. It took the narcissistic young man’s comic novel to such new heights that it essentially killed off the genre – for which, many thanks. Also for “I … waved, with sinister, beckoning motions” and all that.

Terry Wogan read the Gussie Fink-Nottle prize-giving speech at Cheltenham – you could hear the laughter in Birmingham

Sebastian FauksAnd earliest of all were PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories. I have never been able to tune in to Lord Emsworth, but the Jeeves-Wooster relationship has a tensely comic energy. A few years ago, I heard Terry Wogan read the famous Gussie Fink-Nottle prize-giving speech to a large audience at the Cheltenham festival. They say you could hear the laughter in Birmingham.