A house-price horror show

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Turmoil in Britain
Welcome to Britaly
A country of political instability, low growth and subordination to the bond markets

Property
House-price horror show
A slump in house prices is coming. It won’t blow up the financial system, but it will be scary

Ukraine
Defying the odds
Ukraine’s economy is staging a surprising recovery. But it needs more help

Renewable energy
India’s next green revolution
India’s clean-energy push shows how emerging economies could escape the coal addiction

Drugs and depression
Set patients free
Most people on antidepressants don’t need them. Time to wean them off

Letters

Letters to the editor
On church bells, Detroit, Jair Bolsonaro, Armenia and Azerbaijan, management consultants
By Invitation


US-China relations
Research co-operation pays dividends far beyond academia, argues Henry Huiyao Wang
America’s 2022 midterms
Ruy Teixeira asks whether America has reached “peak woke”
Briefing


Clean energy in India
Skunk no more
One of the world’s most polluting countries plans to invest half a trillion dollars in clean energy
Asia


North Korea
Tactical advantage
The Philippines
Recusal of service
Pakistani politics
One-man party
New Zealand
Getting real
Banyan
Tightrope act
China


Succession planning
Heir unapparent
Political phraseology
Xi’s word counts
China’s economy
Moving to mid-levels
When “wolf warrior” diplomacy goes too far
Aggressive to a fault
Chaguan
No turning back
United States


Oregon politics
Unpacific
Midterm maths
Skewed samples
School fights
Compendium of crazy
Beer sommeliers
Draught me in
The midterms
What’s in a name?
Taxing California
How high?
Lexington
Frenemy mine

Middle East & Africa


America and the Gulf
The long goodbye?
Protests in Iran
The ayatollahs dither amid the fire
Zimbabwe’s pregnant schoolgirls
We want to stay at school
Organised crime in South Africa
The murky side of the rainbow nation
The Americas


Brazil
Missing the samba beat
Haiti
A modern inferno
Europe


Drones over Ukraine
Shooting Shaheds
Germany
The Kremlin’s empty lobby
Ukraine’s trains
The Kramatorsk express is back
French arms to Ukraine
Red roses…and artillery
Italy
Not so easy
Charlemagne
Fetchez the barricades!
Britain


After Trussonomics
Who runs Britain now?
Fiscal policy
Abacus economics
Britaly
Low-growth gang
Immigration
Dashed dreams
Restitution
Carbon capture
Walking in cities
Step by step
Bagehot
Meet the man in charge
International


Underwater infrastructure
Sabotage at sea
Business


Meta
Reality bites
Semiconductors
The silicon squeeze
Kweichow Moutai
100% proof
Retailing
Fodder for the FTC
Bartleby
Walking in employees’ shoes
Schumpeter
Where’s the war bounty?
Finance & economics


Property markets
The crack-up
Banking
Stick to Manhattan
Buttonwood
The moron risk premium
Conflict economics
The long march back
Free exchange
How’s your luck?
Science & technology


Drugs for depression
The need for a clear head
Venus
Read my LIPs
An astronomical alchemist
The most powerful flash yet seen in the sky was recorded on October 9th
Neanderthal man and woman
Highland clans
Conserving elephants
Know your boundaries
Culture


Tech and culture
Medicis 2.0
The civil-rights movement
War without war
The fictions of motherhood
A woman’s place
Cybercrime
Hacked off
Johnson
Say no more
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19’s impact
A tale of two pandemics
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How America’s midterms could reshape the courts
The Economist explains
Will Russia’s drone attacks change the war in Ukraine?
Obituary


Yurii Kerpatenko
The man who said no