The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Global finance
The real revolution on Wall Street
High tech meets high finance. It is a promising, but volatile, combination

Fiscal stimulus in America
How much is too much?
Targeted relief would be better than indiscriminate spending

Despots v democrats
The meaning of Myanmar’s coup
Attempts to dress up authoritarian regimes as democracies are unlikely to succeed

Brexit and the City
The price is wrong
If the EU insists that Britain accept its financial rules in return for market access, Britain should say no

Disease and development
Africa’s long covid
The pandemic threatens to undercut the poorest continent’s precarious progress

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Ethiopia, vaccine passports, space debris, Wikipedia
Briefing

Myanmar’s coup
Reversion to type
A general’s thirst for power has shut down democratic rule

Asia


Defending South Korea
Strengthening the shrimp
Insularity in Japan
Home, sweet home
Asian corporate culture
Here’s my QR code
Free speech in India
Prevention is better than cure
Banyan
The shock of the old
China


Ideological battles
Red Guards, redux
Syllabus reform
Young at art
Chaguan
Of sickness and homesickness
United States


California v Texas v covid-19
Life, liberty
School enrolment
Vanishing act
Unions and schools
Class warfare
Covid-19 relief, episode 6
Stimulating talks
Abortion arguments
Roe-ing back
Lexington
The courage of Adam Kinzinger
Middle East & Africa


Africa and covid-19
At the end of the line
Israeli politics
A sea of trouble
Algeria’s car shortage
Broken-down country
Honour killings
Murder, plain and simple
The Americas


Colombia
The terrible truth
Elections in Latin America
More mice than Mussolinis
Bello
A grand bargain
Europe


Italy
Send in the technocrats, again
Russia
A mockery of justice
Nord Stream 2
Running out of gas?
Sweden
Solitary cinema
Charlemagne
Looking for someone to blame
Britain


Brexit
The view from the City
Spirit of the age
Captain Sir Tom Moore
Northern Ireland
Two dangerous borders
Covid-19
Hancock’s hour
Country life
Killing fields
R&D
Blue skies ahead
The national mood
Why the long face?
Bagehot
Riding high
International


The future of nightclubs
Don’t stand so close to me
Business


The future of Amazon
Life after Jeff
Carmaking
Driving apart
Chinese firms abroad
Too close to the sun
Feuding tech giants
Cook v Zuck
Football TV rights
Goalless defeat
Bartleby
Talent management
Schumpeter
The long squeeze
Finance & economics


Retail investing
Transfer of power
The new intermediaries
Pay-per trade
WallStreetBets
Meme team
China’s capital outflows
Border crossings
Wirecard
After months of dithering...
Buttonwood
Shark attack
Free exchange
The natural question
Science & technology


Making vaccines
Doing the do
Viral variants and vaccination
Enigma variations
Daughters and divorce
Teenage rampage
Marine ecology
Plastic oases
The origin of land animals
Getting a leg up
Books & arts


France’s shame
Open secrets
Urban turmoil
Tales of the city
Eco-fiction
Sea change
The death of age
Who wants to live for ever?
Proust and the people
The time of their lives
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Stockmarkets
Sweet memes are made of this
Obituary


Nikolai Antoshkin
At war with the invisible