The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

London’s stockmarket
From Big Bang to a whimper
Britain’s stockmarket is fading away. It can be revived

Xi Jinping’s campaign
China’s new reality
China’s president will be defined by his campaign to tame capitalism

Japanese politics
Uninspired
Japan deserves better than an inoffensive prime minister

Sex and language
She who must not be named
Why “woman” seems to be the hardest word

Taxes in America
Ways and means
America will never have a European-style welfare state without a vat

The future of food
Working up an appetite
Consumers and governments should embrace new ways to make food

Letters

Letters
On the World Bank, housing, supply chains, expats, Islamic sites, the book index
Briefing

The City of London
Britain’s sluggish stockmarket
Why London is no longer the world’s bourse

The world’s stockmarkets
Who’s up, who’s down?
The decline of Britain’s stockmarket should be seen in a broader historical context

Asia


Afghan politics
A delicate balance
Diplomacy
Mission control
Japanese politics
Sub-prime minister
Belt and Road
Laosy bets
Banyan
A raid against dissent
China


Political struggles
The people’s dictator
Chaguan
When China wants to be feared
United States


The Democrats’ tax plans
From whatever source derived
Elections
Still stopping the steal
Forgetting Haiti
The rest is history
SCOTUS
Term time
Rikers Island
Aggravated robbery
Gentrifying prisons
Fulsome
Lexington
Green on brown
The Americas


Brazil
A conservative crack-up
Brazil’s submarines
Underwater atoms
Bello
Between hope and fear
Middle East & Africa


Tunisia
Fiddling while Carthage burns
Libya
One Qaddafi wasn’t enough
Pension funds
Building bridges
South Africa
When the ANC withers
Europe


Germany’s election
Advantage Scholz
The eastern Mediterranean
Paris Philhellenic
Russia
Putin in hiding
Covid-19 and labour markets
Roam work
Charlemagne
A very European election
Britain


The fuel crisis
Running on empty
Housing
Change of plan
Therapy
Breaking through
Studying classics
Bearing gifts
Labour markets
He-cession
Regional policy
The Manchester two-step
Bagehot
A blustery week
International


Conscription
Call on me
Award
Technology Quarterly


Future food
The new Anthropocene diet
Plant-based meat and dairy
Mooving on
Lab-grown meat
Cell-side markets
Precision fermentation
Culture club
Urban farming
Green castles in the sky
Overlooked foods
Features and bugs
Business


Ford and General Motors
Electric Motor City
Supply chains
Out of the groove
Stockmarket listings in America
A key moment in capitalism
Bartleby
Better not squash
Schumpeter
How bosses should write books
Finance & economics


China jitters (1)
The property complex
China jitters (2)
The political premium
Xi’s electric
The latest shock to China’s economy: power shortages
Property in the rich world
Home truths
The Federal Reserve
Setting rates and trading them, too
Buttonwood
Supermayhem
Free exchange
Black cat, white cat, fat cat, thin cat
Award
Science & technology


Aquaculture
Seaweed at scale
Sequencing genetic material
A hole in one?
Palaeontology
Crimes of passion
Books & arts


Picturing God
With his outstretched arm
The second world war
Graveyard of empires
The end of cash
Kill bills
Johnson
Standing up for standard
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Agricultural emissions
The beef with beef
Obituary


George Holliday
The man on the balcony