Why inflation will be hard to bring down
The world this week
Leaders
Still aloft
Inflation will be harder to bring down than markets think
Investors are betting on good times. The likelier prospect is turbulence
Peak populism
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation is part of Britain’s great moderation
Pragmatism is taking hold north and south of the border
A constitutional crisis in Israel
Israel’s proposed legal reforms are a dreadful answer to a real problem
They will damage the country at home and abroad
Plug and pay
The world won’t decarbonise fast enough unless renewables make real money
Governments must accept that green power is pricey
A chance for change
Nigeria desperately needs a new kind of leadership
Peter Obi offers the best hope of it
Letters
On China and space, Turkey, Paul Pennyfeather, Pakistan, The Gambia, banking, old age
Letters to the editor
Briefing
A hard road
Lots of investors think inflation is under control. Not so fast
Tight labour markets suggest that prices may continue to rise faster than markets think
Britain
Sturgeon goes
Nicola Sturgeon leaves with Scotland split in two
Hostel environment
Britons take against asylum hotels
All hail the laptop classes
The shape of the post-pandemic economy in Britain
A marine puzzle
The mystery of the twitching crabs
Ocean retreat
Britain could soon give up its last African colony
Europe
United States
The rent is too damn high
Pandemic eviction bans have spawned a renters’-rights movement
The power of suggestion
Should tech platforms be liable for the content they carry?
Arguing behind bars
Volunteers teach debating skills to America’s incarcerated
Shoot first, ask questions later
What America has been shooting down in the sky
The Americas
Middle East & Africa
The world’s toughest in-tray
Can a political underdog save Nigeria?
The day of judgment
Proposed legal reforms could be dire for Israel
Never let a crisis go to waste
Bashar al-Assad does not want to let a calamity go to waste
Asia
China
The other China surveillance threat
How China’s police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
Your driving licence, madam?
How much of a concern are China’s overseas police stations?
America bad, China good
Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad
International
Business
Up. Down. And sideways?
What Tencent’s rebound says about prospects for China’s big tech
Adani in charts
Adani companies’ decent earnings offer only moderate relief
The Iger sanction
Bob Iger makes big changes at Disney
Finance & economics
Going great guns
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
Mixing business with pleasure
Why more Chinese tourism means more capital flight
Multilateral mess
The World Bank’s embattled chief steps down
Free exchange
The case for globalisation optimism
Science & technology
Greening steel
A new way to clean up the steel industry
Male contraceptives
A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
Stabilising mRNA vaccines
Vaccines based on mRNA need to get out of the freezer
Plants, aphids, wasps and L-DOPA
Plants call for help with a chemical employed by people as a drug
Culture
Russian culture in wartime
A portrait of the Russian artist in the age of Z
Home Entertainment
William Byrd was a favourite composer of Elizabeth I
Psychological fiction
“My Nemesis” is a tale of middle age, femininity and desire
Business and capitalism
American business and propaganda for free markets
Femicide in Mexico
An author reconstructs the life of her murdered sister
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The rich are different
Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey’s earthquake
Obituary
Through a child’s eyes
Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father’s creativity
By Invitation
Nigerian politics
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on why he is running to be Nigeria’s president
Nigerian politics
Peter Obi on why he is running to be Nigeria’s president
The Economist explains
The Economist explains