NOV 28TH 2020
How resilient is democracy?

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Democracy contains the seeds of its own recovery
The resilience of democracy
Although it has been in recession, democracy contains the seeds of its own recovery

Covid-19’s corporate winners and losers
What doesn’t kill you
Has the pandemic made incumbent firms stronger?

Ethiopia
Preventing war crimes
Africa and the world need to act now to stop the slaughter in Tigray

Fiscal stimulus
The right kind of discipline
Fights about stimulus are breaking out everywhere. Time for rules-based budgeting

Covid-19 and school exams
Papers, please
Exams are grim, but most alternatives are worse

Agriculture in Britain
Ploughing its own furrow
Outside the EU, Britain can farm greener and better

Letters

Letters to the editor
On covid testing, Germany, women's suffrage, free speech, rock stars, Singapore, trains, bitcoin
Briefing

Democracy in India
Subcontinental drift
A power-hungry prime minister threatens to turn India into a one-party state

Asia


Rule of law in South Korea
Prosecution complex
Sri Lanka’s Tamils
The war within
Crime in Singapore
A city reels
India and Pakistan
Shell game
Banyan
Hurly-barley
China


China studies
Barriers to Sinology
Television entertainment
Loaded questions
Chaguan
Patriotism before profit
United States


The covid-19 vaccines
Grabbing a cold one
The virus and the heartland
View from the ICU
Team Biden
In transit
The other transition
Miss gender
Obscure laws
Panic attacks
Lexington
The end of the embarrassment
Middle East & Africa


American policy in the Middle East
You’re sanctioned!
Israel and Saudi Arabia
The not-so-secret alliance
Uganda’s election
Bullets before the ballot
Nigeria
It’s all in the script
Migration from west Africa
Africa’s do-or-die boat people
The Americas


Venezuela
They’re going to win, by a lot
Diego Maradona
Divine and damned
Bello
The future of bolsonarismo
Europe


The Sweden Democrats
On their way in
Swedish gang violence
Segregated cities
Sicily and EU cash
No cosying up to Cosa Nostra
France and Germany
War of words
Poland
Disco populism
Charlemagne
Newtonian Europe
Britain


Public spending
A combustible mix
Potholes
Revolutionary roads
Covid-19 vaccines
Emergency exit
Farming after Brexit
Fresh fields and pastures new
Bagehot
Sunak’s secret self
International


Exams and covid-19
Testing, testing
Business


Live events
The roar of the crowd
Publishing
Book-binding
Shopping frenzies
Fade from black
The attention economy
You’ve been botted
Diversity consulting
All inclusive
Bartleby
Winter is coming
Schumpeter
The climate centurion
Finance & economics


Christine Lagarde
Culture shock
Janet Yellen
Something for everyone
Buttonwood
Home-schooled
Stimulus in America
A clash over cash
Personal debt in China
Overdue action
Money transfers
Intrepid banking
Free exchange
An unbalanced debate
Science & technology


The coronavirus pandemic
Another covid-19 vaccine joins the party
Sterilising medical instruments
Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Palaeontology
Nursery days
Children’s car seats
Berth control
The death of Arecibo
Si monumentum requiris respicite
Books & arts


The underworld of empire
Brothers in arms
Historical fiction
Cops and plotters
Creatures of the deep
Thar she blew
Lives of the composers
Too beautiful
Johnson
Average Joe
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, markets and commodities
Graphic detail


Covid-19 and lockdowns
Second act
Obituary


Jan Morris
Unaltered states