The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The new energy order
Power in the 21st century
Efforts to rein in climate change will up-end the geopolitics of energy

Inflation
Off target
The ECB’s lack of credibility on inflation is pushing up the euro. It could harm Europe’s recovery

Multinational business and protectionism
Birth of the Frankenfirm
Corporate contortions at TikTok and Arm are an unfortunate sign of things to come

Deliberative democracy
Amateurs to the rescue
Politicians should take citizens’ assemblies seriously

Abortion
Pills by post
The pandemic shows a better way to handle terminations

Letters

Letters to the editor
On dementia, the Beatles, scientific management
Briefing

Energy’s new world order
Petrostate v electrostate
What it means to dominate the world of energy is changing—to China’s advantage

Asia


After Abe
Searching for Suga-san
The Afghan peace negotiations
Clearing their throats
Labour in Singapore
Aggrieved Parti
Liberals, Nationals, marsupials
Koalition politics
Pacific plebiscites
No island is an island
Banyan
No pay, no rights, no recourse
Bangladesh and China
Two-timing
Indian politics and media
Covid? What covid?
China


Wuhan’s recovery
Washing away the tears
Social class
The landlords are back
Chaguan
The politics of poverty
United States


Donald Trump’s record
The master’s bidding
HBCUs
Historically back
Resort towns
The virus in paradise
The 2020 campaigns
Following the money
Abortion by pill
No scrubs
Lexington
Fire and ice
The Americas


Colombia
Fight crime, not war
Barbados
Bajan bye-bye
Bello
The return of the Monroe doctrine
Middle East & Africa


Ethnic tensions and state violence
Ethiopia’s transition is in peril
Public spending in Ghana
High noon for half-bridges
Politics in Uganda
Divided we stand
Banning names
Sorry, you’re not on the list
Israel and the Arab world
End of the illusion
Europe


Russia’s local elections
Winning from death’s door
Spanish history
A law to fight Franco
The eastern Mediterranean
Anchors awry
Germany’s economic recovery
Zombie dawn
Charlemagne
Europe’s asylum compromise
Britain


Britain after Brexit
Opening the taps
Abortion
Call to action
Covid-19
Flunked
Northern Ireland
Up(load) the RA
Unemployment
Pain in unexpected places
Public art
For God’s sake
Threats to Britain
Into the greyzone
Bagehot
Boris v the blue blob
International


Deliberative democracy
Some assembly required
Special report


Business and climate change
The great disrupter
Physical impact
A grim outlook
Regulation
Costs of carbon
Carbon offsets
Cheap cheats
Legal risks
Guilty by emission
Technology
Green machines
The future
Directing the disruption
Business


The future of carmaking
Journeys in the Teslaverse
Electric altercations
Short circuit
Not quite beyond petroleum
A less oily BP
Chipmaking
Integrating circuits
Sino-American tech tussles
Trump card
Bartleby
The only way is ethics
The database business
Steam engine in the cloud
Schumpeter
The perils of stakeholderism
Finance & economics


The world economy
The 90% economy, revisited
China’s recovery
One-armed fighter
International trade
Continuity candidate
Climate finance
The meaning of green
One-woman show
Women on Wall Street
European stock exchanges
Shotgun wedding
Buttonwood
McJobbers and brokers
Free exchange
Altered vistas
Science & technology


Planetary science
A sniff of life?
Biodiversity
We started the fire
Cloud computing
Better down where it’s wetter
Cyber-power
Digital dominance
Books & arts


Africa goes pop
From Nollywood to Netflix
Banlieue cinema
The dancer and the dance
Richard Wagner
A hateful beauty
Energy and politics
Maps about chaps
Johnson
Cawfee break
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Investing
Value judgment
Obituary


Joan Feynman
Getting to know the Sun