The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Russia and Ukraine
Putin’s botched job
Whether he invades Ukraine or backs down, Russia’s autocratic president has harmed his country

Inflation
The chicken and the peg
Workers have the most to lose from a wage-price spiral

Free speech
No, Canada
Justin Trudeau has handled vaccine protests atrociously

British politics
Factional dissipation
The malaise at the heart of the Conservatives

Drug manufacturing
An injection of reality
To build a vaccine industry, Africa must embrace the private sector

Letters

Letters
On peer review, Myanmar, pay, DNA, the Acropolis, vellum, Ottawa
Briefing

The Ukraine crisis
A grim look out
Whatever Vladimir Putin does next, his willingness to threaten war has changed the nature of his regime irreversibly and to Russia’s disadvantage

Open-source intelligence
Watching the border
The detail in which Russia’s military build-up and manoeuvres around Ukraine have been observed is a portent of things to come

Asia


Afghanistan in crisis
The limits of aid
Japanese booze
Awamori? Go on then
Public health
A million ways to die in the east
Turkmenistan
Cut-rate khanate
Banyan
Littoral, but not serious enough
China


Biodiversity
Conservation conversation
Nationality
Two passports, one problem
Chaguan
“Zero covid” as a loyalty test
United States


America’s next mining boom
Between a rock and a hard place
School politics
Going overboard
Parent power
Total recall
Post-office reform
Not yet signed, sealed or delivered
Industrial policy
Hard-tech heartland
Lexington
The fight for Catholic America
The Americas


Canada
No truck with Trudeau
Bello
The mansion and the first son
Middle East & Africa


China and Africa
Chasing the dragon
Food labels
The champagne of Benin
Jihadists in the Sahel
French leave
Tunisia
“RoboCop” hits a rough patch
Europe


France
The Pécresse file
Hungary
An unfair game
Germany
Robert Habeck’s odyssey
Charlemagne
A superhero sprouts in Brussels
Britain


The Conservative Party
Old dudes
Press freedom
Nobody’s business
Essex
Not the only way
Gender medicine
Trans action
Bagehot
The shrinkflation state
Business


Digital geopolitics
The Russian stack
The clothes business
The middle-market corset
Education technology
Learnings growth
Bartleby
Writing about leadership
Schumpeter
Cyber-rattling
Finance & economics


Labour v capital
The battle of the markups
Business districts
The true cost of empty offices
Global retail banking
The Citi that was never finished
Prediction markets
Punting profits
Buttonwood
Behold the CrypSPACtaur
Free exchange
The wonks’ weapons
Science & technology


Rocket science
Ad astra, on the cheap
Drug manufacturing
Cloning vaccine factories
Culture


India’s past and present
A magnificent seven
Life on Earth
Creatures of the deep past
The story of PayPal
Making the mafia
Debut fiction
Love and other demons
World in a dish
Closer to the bone
Artisanal pottery
Glaze of glory
Back Story
The Western rides again
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Crime in America
Why have murders soared?
Obituary


John Hare
Look behind the Ranges