OCT 17TH 2020
Torment of the Uyghurs and the global crisis in human rights

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Human rights
Torment of the Uyghurs
The persecution of Xinjiang’s Muslims is a crime against humanity. It is part of a worldwide attack on human rights

The American election
Grading Trumponomics
How to judge the president’s economic record

Covid-19
Going full circuit
Britain would be wrong to return to national lockdown, even a short, sharp one

Transgender rights
A question of sport
Letting trans women play in women’s sports is often unfair

Tech investing and the Vision Fund
A vision in hindsight
The lessons from Son Masayoshi’s super-sized tech experiment

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the debates, Germany, energy, Colombia, trade, Dominic Cummings
Briefing

Ruling Thailand
Battle royal
King Maha Vajiralongkorn is taking Thailand back towards an absolute monarchy. A new state of emergency will make it harder to resist him

Asia


Sexual politics in South Korea
Cradle to desk
The Aboriginal flag
Take down or cough up
Politics in Kyrgyzstan
From prison to power in a week
Corruption in Bangladesh
Land of land-grabs
Banyan
Suharto with a saw
China


Xinjiang
Orphaned by the state
Chaguan
Claiming covid as a win
United States


Trumponomics
Watered with liberal tears
Amy Coney Barrett
Hearing test
New York and covid-19
Pikuach nefesh
Elections in Maine
Shaken Collins
Far-right extremism
Making the world glow
Lexington
The audacity of Jaime Harrison
Middle East & Africa


Mali after the coup
We were soldiers once
Congo’s cobalt
The ugly rush
Iran’s armed forces
After the embargo
Dubai
Old is gold
Ethiopian Jews
From Gondar to Jerusalem
The Americas


Bolivia
A consequential contest
Colombia
VAT half-empty
Bello
The girl who hated soup
Europe


An interview with Russia’s opposition leader
The man who lived
Turkey
Wear a different chain
Berlin’s new airport
It’s built, but will they fly?
Feminism in France
Like a fish needs a bicyclette
Charlemagne
Learning to love the c-word
Britain


The second wave
Back into the storm
The business of biography
Aide memoir
Defence policy
Global swarming
Trade policy
Getting hormonal
Mixed martial arts
Class conflict
Babies and covid-19
Hard labour
Pearson
Marks for effort
Bagehot
Mad, bad and dangerous
International


Covid-19 and liberty
No vaccine for cruelty
Business


SoftBank
What Masa does next
Aerospace
Not boxing clever
Bartleby
Stop all the clocks
Chinese IPOs in America
Red capitalism
Farm equipment
Fertile ground
5G handsets
The iPhone gets up to snuff
Retail
Turning a corner
Schumpeter
Bad news
Finance & economics


China’s economy
The real deal
Wall Street
The calm after the storm
Government debt
Relief efforts
Personal finance
The saver’s dilemma
From acute to chronic
The IMF’s new forecasts
Buttonwood
Persian version
Free exchange
Winning bids
Science & technology


Transgender athletes
Scrum down
Submarine communications
Good vibrations
Gut microbes
Germ lines
Ecology
Not so deserted
Physics
Max machs
Award
British Science Journalist of the Year
Books & arts


American history
The road to Camelot
Egyptology
Pyramid schemes
Johnson
Wine and bottles
British fiction
Secrets and lies
Art and punishment
Body and soul
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Formula 1
Man v machine
Obituary


Mohammad Reza Shajarian
The bird of freedom