The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

War in Ukraine
How rotten is Russia’s army?
Vladimir Putin uses warfare to make up for Russia’s weaknesses. That is why he is so dangerous

Social media
The techno-king of Twitter
The world’s best-known engineer takes on the problem of free speech. We hope he succeeds

Covid-19 in China
The forever war
Xi Jinping continues to treat the pandemic like a war. It’s time for him to adapt

France
The centre holds
Emmanuel Macron has triumphed, but he faces a steep road ahead

Curbing Vladimir Putin
The case for energy sanctions
Europe should impose a high tariff on imports of Russian oil and gas

Letters

Letters to the editor
Europe’s unicorns, China and Taiwan, electoral systems, petrol stations, English prefixes, time
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Rob Lee on why attrition will be a critical factor in the battle for Donbas
Russia and Ukraine
Ukraine’s prime minister says reconstruction planning must start now
Briefing

Russia’s armed forces
Sorrows in battalions
How deep does the rot revealed by the botched invasion of Ukraine go?

Asia


Hun Sen’s Cambodia
Autumn of the patriarch
Transport in the Philippines
Not so fast
India
Policing, fast and slow
An insurgency rekindled
Bad neighbours
Banyan
Unhappy families
China


The pandemic
Covid hits the capital
How China is ruled
Chain, reaction
Pets and covid
Leave no dog behind
Pensions
Pillar talk
Chaguan
What Chinese public anger means
United States


Pennsylvania
Signs of the times in the Keystone State
DeSantis v Disney
Frozen
Faith and freedom
An almighty win?
Free petrol
Tank warfare
Hawaii
Pacific pain from Ukraine
Lexington
The new McCarthyism
The Americas


Agriculture
Pulling its wheat
El Salvador
Iron fist
Paraguay
Highway through hell
Middle East & Africa


Lebanon
An exhausted people limp to the polls
Religion and society
The breakfast club
Israel, Ukraine and the Holocaust
Awkward narratives
Africa’s debt crisis
Debt and denial
Nigeria
The game begins
Europe


France
Macron rolls up his sleeves
War in Ukraine
Pushing for “victory”
Ukrainian refugees in Poland
The wreckage within
Turkey
“Judicial assassination”
Gerhard Schröder
From chancellor to chancer
Charlemagne
Manu of the moment
Britain


Northern Ireland
Placards, paralysis and a protocol
Brexit
Left behind
Shortages of doctors
When the applause fades
TalkTV
All mouth. Any trousers?
Higher education
Book value
Labour mobility
Moving pictures
Bagehot
Sir Keir, the cynic
International


Demography
At home abroad
Business


Twitter
A bird in the hand
Regulating content
Moderating power
Technology profits
The secrets of big tech
Chipmaking
Crossing the chokepoint
Bartleby
Easter eggs and other treats
Schumpeter
Top dogs and babies’ bottoms
Finance & economics


The global economy
Running out of juice
The yuan
Fear of floundering
Buttonwood
Expectations management
European gas
Tit for taps
America’s economy
Surveying the coming wreckage
Stimulus in the pandemic
Ill-gotten gains
Free exchange
Cascade effects
Science & technology


Marine biology
Now hear this
Reusable rockets
Rocket Lab’s grab
East Coast Fever
Cowabunga!
Culture


Lava Jato
The policemen’s tale
World in a dish
The buttered pragmatist
Industrialists and the Nazi regime
Hitler’s enablers
Scottish fiction
Growing pains
Classical music
Centre stage
Back Story
Art of controversy
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


House prices
Where the lawns are greener
Obituary


Mimi Reinhard
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