NOV 27TH 2021
Adventure capitalism: Startup finance goes global

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Technology investing
Adventure capitalism
The venture-capital industry is being supersized by a colossal boom. Good

Geopolitics
March of the midsized menaces
America’s retreat has let smaller countries wield more hard power. It is not going well

Germany
Green shift
The new German government holds great promise. It will need luck, too

Covid-19 in Europe
Winter wave
A fourth surge is causing panic and muddled thinking

Indian politics
Heir today, gone tomorrow?
For the Congress party to recover, the Gandhis must quit

Letters

Letters to the editor
Assisted dying, covid-19, Franco-Swiss trains, animal rights
Briefing

Geopolitics
The menace of midsized meddlers
As America retreats, regional rogues are on the rise

Asia


Indian politics
With enemies like these
South Korean history
A dictator’s demise
Covid-19 protests
Globalising discontent
Migration scams
No way out
Banyan
Oh no, it’s UMNO
Climate change and emigration
How green was my valley
China


Education abroad
The West’s allure
Birdwatching
Shout it from the rooftops
Chaguan
The silencing of a tennis star
United States


Biden’s technology policy
In tech we don’t trust
Treatment for covid-19
Worms v virus
Covid-19 and Thanksgiving
Seasonal spread
The murder of Ahmaud Arbery
Crime and punishment
Food rules
Reaping what you sow
Anti-abortion protests
Clashing at the clinics
A Civilian Climate Corps
The new tree army
The Americas


Colombia
Still armed, still dangerous
Bello
Waiting for the tourists to return
Middle East & Africa


Health care in Africa
Picking their shots
Music censorship in Congo
Zapping the rap
Sudan
Coup de grâce
The war in Yemen
Slouching towards an exit
Israel and NSO Group
Hacked off
Europe


Germany’s next government
All systems go
Covid-19 in Europe
The fourth wave
Russia
Poseidon’s jewels
Video games
Console sisters
Charlemagne
The Franco-Italian job
Britain


Immigration
Desperate measures
Medical cannabis
Hard cases
Brexit and regulation (1)
A power in the land
Brexit and regulation (2)
Is “adequate” good enough?
The press
Back to the barricades
Mass fraud
Criminally under-policed
Bagehot
Some modest proposals
International


Astronomers v satellites
Goodbye darkness, my old friend
Business


European entrepreneurs
Renaissance
European telecoms
Tim’s troubles
Bartleby
Managing the Great Resignation
The firearms industry
Reloaded
Electronic waste
iMac, iPhone, iRepair
Vietnamese tycoons
Back from the USSR
Party hearty
Booming M&A is smashing records
Schumpeter
In the flesh
Finance & economics


Venture capital
The next stage
The Federal Reserve
Still in the hot seat
Inflation in America
Homegrown headache
Erdogan v markets
Going for broke
Buttonwood
Full tilt
Free exchange
A universe of worry
Science & technology


Astronomy
The great, late James Webb Space Telescope
Books & arts


Safeguarding art
Grab and go
Aviation
Plane wrong
Scheherazade’s revenge
A whole new world
Johnson
A kind of blue
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Disease control
Social distan-sting
Obituary


Rossana Banti
The girl in red