The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Work and
Office politics
The fight over the future of the workplace has just begun

Belarus
Don’t let Putin swallow Belarus
In exchange for Russian support, a despot prepares to sell out his country

Brexit and international law
A shocking breach
Threatening to break international law as a negotiating tactic is both foolish and dangerous

Wildfires
Burning up
The devastation in California would be far less widespread if the state had learnt its lessons

Title and ownership
Whose land?
Enforceable property rights are still far too rare in poor countries

Letters

Letters to the editor
On digital trade, Ferdinand Magellan, the centre-left, mental health, diplomacy, economics
Briefing

The future of the office
What a way to make a living
Covid-19 has forced a radical shift in working habits—for the better

Asia


Kashmir
Highland brig
India’s border with China
Ice and fire
Railways in Japan
Undo the locomotion
Myanmar and the Rohingya
They shot the smoking guns
Banyan
The new weather gods
China


Party building
The red front-line
Foreign media
Bumping heads
Chaguan
More red than green
United States


Generations and the election
The boomers’ last stand
Rap on the block
Sotheby’s hip-hop auction
The horse race
One trot closer
Political skulduggery in Missouri
The will of the...whatever
Eviction
Shelter in place
Lexington
The view from the scaffold
Middle East & Africa


Property rights
Parcels, plots and power
Jordan
Failing the test
Serbia, Kosovo and Israel
An awkward embrace
America and the Middle East
Stealth diplomacy
The Americas


Education in Latin America
Home truths
Mexico
Air show
Bello
Damned either way
Europe


Turkey
Erdogan’s world
Italy’s migrants
Blamed for the virus
Germany and Russia
The lady may toughen up
French intellectuals
Sex, lies and philosophy
Charlemagne
Last of the centre-lefties
Britain


Brexit negotiations
A new barrier
Suburban life
The end of commuterland
Sandwich strategies
Getting out of a pickle
Education
Famine to feast
Climate change
Extinguished Rebellion
Metal detectorists
Gold diggers
Bagehot
Revolutionary conservatism
International


The World Health Organisation
What’s wrong with the WHO
Business


Netflix
The Hastings doctrine
Vaccines
Strong medicine
Beverages (1)
Caffeine clash
Beverages (2)
Bottle shock
America v Huawei
Creative destruction
Bartleby
The delight is in the detail
Schumpeter
The one that got away
Finance & economics


Stockmarkets
Techtonic shifts
Fractional ownership
Money in the Banksy
Global trade
Down but not out
Climate change
Stormy waters
Buttonwood
Eggheads
Cyber-heists
Malware and mules
European banks
Badwill hunting
Free exchange
Which market model is best?
Schools brief


Government debt
Putting on weight
Science & technology


Natural disasters
Learning to live with it
Atmospheric dynamics
Fire, then ice
Palaeontology
Bones of contention
Immunology
Green shoots
Armoured warfare
Army surplus?
Books & arts


Globalisation
Lowering the drawbridge
American history
Out of the closet
Prairie gothic
Thicker than water
Philosophy
New speak
Irish fiction
Memory lane
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Influenza
Cold case
Obituary


Comrade Duch
The mathematics of death