The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Data and the economy
Instant economics
A real-time revolution in economics could make the world better off

Nigeria
The crime scene at the heart of Africa
Insurgency, secessionism and banditry threaten Nigeria. The government should wake up

Monetary policy
Don’t jump the gun
The Bank of England should not raise interest rates until 2022

Democracy in the EU
An October revolution
A backlash against bad government in eastern Europe is at last under way

The geopolitics of money
Be swift, be bold
If Western countries and firms want to stay in charge of global money flows, they have to modernise how they happen

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Pakistan, the American navy, management, the Peshtigo fire, Ethiopia, learning classics, God
Briefing

The real-time revolution in economics
The real-time revolution
How the pandemic reshaped the dismal science

Asia


Reform in Central Asia
From gulag to ordinary grumbles
Afghanistan
More extreme than the extremists
Violence in Kashmir
Valley of fear
Politics in Singapore
Outside job
Banyan
Learning how to be happy again
China


Uyghur culture
Poetry from the gulag
Nuclear weapons
Glide and seek
Chaguan
The Communist Party’s confidence
United States


Wages
Striketober
Ethnic studies
Race and class
Warming seas
Considering the lobster
California
Toying with the nanny state
Social media
Devious licks
Secessionists
Oregone
Lexington
Reconstructing America
The Americas


Peru
Jobs for the comrades
Brazil’s woes
President anti-vaxxer
Mexico
Not ageing gracefully
Middle East & Africa


Nigeria
When things fall apart
Africa’s wannabe financial centres
Capital cities
Lebanon
Probing too deep
Iran
Andy Warhol and the ayatollahs
Europe


Ukraine
Winter is coming
Hungary
The unexpected challenger
Spain
Liberty lady
Germany’s next government
Green-lit
Ritual slaughter
Trouble and knife
Charlemagne
A court of kings
Britain


Monetary policy
Ready for a leap in the dark
Agriculture
Making a pig’s ear of it
Climate change
Jolly green giant
Investment
Doffing the cap
Trains
Railing against modernity
Domestic operations
Call in the troops, again
Bagehot
A great parliamentarian
International


Climate change
Heated debates
Business


Samsung Electronics
The third star
A makeover at Facebook?
About-face
Bartleby
Why mission statements matter
Green business
The hydrogen rush
Chinese industry
Awaiting electrocution
Schumpeter
Let a hundred flowers bloom
Finance & economics


China’s economy
From the sublime to the subpar
Property in China
Evergrande plans
Crypto assets
Bitcoin bounce
The Bundesbank
Hawk descending
SWIFT
Message in a battle
Buttonwood
When the pipes creak
Free exchange
Tanks for nothing
Science & technology


Servicing EVs
Farewell to the grease monkey
Self-driving cars
Hands off the wheel
Extracting power from waves
Like clockwork
Tuberculosis
Making resistance useless
Evolution in action
Spoils of war
Books & arts


Entertainment in the Arab world
Tales of the unexpected
Rare foods
Refined tastes
Municipal mistakes
The coast of dystopia
Spies and the stage
Smoke and mirrors
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Vaccine mandates
Strictly come jabbing
Obituary


Colin Powell
A soldier in Washington