The world this week

The world this year
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Legacy of a pandemic
The new normal
The era of predictable unpredictability is not going away

Britain’s government
Broken promises
A rebellion in Parliament is just the start of the prime minister’s difficulties

Russia and Ukraine
How to deter Vladimir Putin
The West must raise the costs to the Kremlin of invading Ukraine

America’s investors
Situation normal: all bid up
What doesn’t kill the bull market only makes it stranger

Country of the year
Triumphal honours
Which country improved the most in 2021?

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Brexit, satellite pollution, local taxes, cheese, Fairphone, art, Stephen Sondheim, the Beatles
Asia


North Korea
A decade of despair
Politics in the Pacific
Rule of three
Banyan
Down and to the right
China


Bullying small countries
A frigid farewell
Elderly suicide
Old and sad
United States


Internal migration
Movers and shakers
Kentucky’s tornado
The long road back
Lexington
Rowing about Christmas
Middle East & Africa


Libya
On your marks, get set, now what?
Iranian saffron
The bitter taste of sanctions
Ethiopia’s civil war
Back to the mountains
The Americas


Education after covid-19
Studying Ceará
Chile’s presidential contest
Curb your extremism
Europe


Denmark
No room at the inn
Another view
The Lolland exception
Bulgaria
Here come the Harvards
Charlemagne
A bittersweet Noël
Britain


Covid-19
A dose for the world
Unionism and social attitudes
Saving Ulster
The Marble Arch mound
Over the hills
Bagehot
Wakey wakey
International


The spread of the Omicron variant
Seeing the need for speed
Christmas Specials


Archaeology
Unearthing the truth
Parenting in Hong Kong
Teach your children well
An economic history of the restaurant
The pleasures of the table
Corrugated iron
Gimme shelter
A fairer way to vote?
The public squared
Space travel
Fighting fit
Singapore
The last holdout
Julius Caesar
He came, he saw, he lied
British social history
Pocock’s pen pals
The soviet disunion
Unfinished business
The Kalergi plan
Sons of Tokyo, dreams of Europe
Food history
No spring chicken
Middle Eastern trains
Murder of the Orient Express
Fashion
One woman’s trash
Indian popular culture
The arrival of a truck
North v south
A world of two halves
Cryptocurrencies
Ride to freedom
On the wings of song
Of birds and men
Business


Container shipping
All at sea
Plots unearthed in 2021
A year in four charts
Information technology
Cloud atlas
Bartleby
Teamwork and the Beatles
Schumpeter
Lords of the metaverse
Finance & economics


Private markets
Spinning around
Economic sanctions
SWIFT thinking
Follow the money
After a shocker in 2021, where might inflation go in 2022?
Local debt in China
Lurking danger
Free exchange
Of Milton and money
Science & technology


Apiarism
Bees, mites and unintended consequences
Marine propulsion
Real fintech
Geomagnetic archaeology
One with Nineveh and Tyre
Books & arts


Saudi cinema
Arabian lights
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The year in news
If it spreads, it’s read
Obituary


Antony Sher
Spiderman