The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Britain’s economy
Free the north
Fire up Britain’s economy by invigorating its second-tier cities

China and covid-19
What is the plan?
China is loosening its covid restrictions, at great risk

Italy and Europe
Crying out for reform
Giorgia Meloni needs to be bold. Sadly, she appears reticent

Canada
Charter fights
A clause in Canada’s constitution lets politicians nullify citizens’ rights. It needs to go

Financial markets
The new rules
Investing in an era of higher interest rates and scarcer capital

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Chinese students, FTX, Britain’s spending cuts, Kazakhstan, classical music, “When Harry Met Sally”
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
A former French ambassador on the paradox unveiled by the war in Ukraine
Crypto after FTX
A crypto-exchange founder makes his case for decentralised finance
Briefing


The new rules of investment
When the tide turns
Rising interest rates and inflation have upended the world of investing
Asia


India’s development
Gujaratification
Press unfreedom in the Philippines
Dead convicts and a peculiar murder
Toon wars
Manga v webtoons
Indonesia’s extramarital-sex ban
Bad news for Bali
Banyan
Karma chameleon
Cross-border gambling
China’s cash gift to the rest of Asia
China


The zero-covid policy
Dismantling the machine
Vaccinating the vulnerable
Obstinate elders
Dissidents v censors
Good, good, good
Chaguan
The politics of death in China
United States


Congress
Last-minute bargains
A SCOTUS double feature
Moore or less
Tax law
High deductibles
Invasive species
Cat got your tern
Youth suicide
Beginnings and endings
Lexington
Defender of the faith

Middle East & Africa


The Gulf and China
Arabs looking east
Iran
Off with those scarves!
Perverse incentives
To reap, perchance, per diem
South African politics
Sofa so good
Education in Africa
Lessons in poverty
The Americas


Canada
A bomb lodged in the constitution
Peru
Castillo the brief
Bello
An adiós in troubled times
Argentina
Peronist in peril
Europe


Germany
The traffic-light at one
Germany
The unhappy prince
Ukraine’s Somme
The battle for Bakhmut
Moscow
The silence of the Russians
Ukraine
Smart warfare
French brand names
C’est easy-peasy
Charlemagne
Cancel sculpture
Britain


Manchester
The sputtering engine of the north
Constitutional reform
A test of radicalism
Inflation
Tapped out
Asylum-seekers
Traffic fights
Britain’s growth crisis
The family silver
Bagehot
Mind your manners (or go to jail)
International


Deep-sea fishing
An uneven contest
Special report


Italy
Wanted: an Italian Thatcher
The economy
The cost of vulnerability
The public debt
Spreadeagled
Business in Italy
Structural faults
The south
Sunrise or sunset?
Politics
Italy’s bane
Repopulation
The houses that Giuseppe sold
The future
A new reform spirit
Italy
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Information technology
The new age of AI
Artificial intelligence
The bard of AI-von
Pandemic profits
The value of zero
Bartleby
The scourge of title inflation
The business cycle
Axeing questions
Schumpeter
Supercharging super-apps
Finance & economics


Pension funds
The incredible shrinking plan
Stalling Asia
The chips hit the fan
Consumer prices
The monetary marathon
Transatlantic trade
Concrete jungle
Buttonwood
Thrill bills
Free exchange
The cost of impunity
Science & technology


Naval drones
Q-boats
Neuroscience
Silent synapses
Palaeontology
Join the club
The origin of lager
Cheers!
Culture


Our books of the year
The good books
Books by our writers
The midnight oil
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Protests in Iran
Lifting the veil
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why Darjeeling tea may face extinction
The Economist explains
Can hydropower help ease Europe’s energy crisis?
Obituary


Jay Pasachoff
The shadow-lover