Mar 6th 2021

Bouncing back: a safety net for the post-covid world

The world this week

Leaders

Welfare in the 21st century
Bouncing back

How to make a social safety net for the post-covid world

Fiscal policy in Britain
St Augustine’s economics

The chancellor wants to rein in government spending, but not yet

The Middle East
It’s complicated

What America should do in the Middle East

Chinese politics
The darkest corners

A clear-out of the security agencies shows the opacity of power in China

Ten years after 3/11
The lessons of Fukushima

Nuclear power must be well run, not ditched

Letters

Letters to the editor
On decarbonisation, Russia, America’s constitution, diversity, biodiversity, foreign expressions

Briefing

The future of the welfare state
Shelter from the storm

The pandemic has transformed the welfare state. Which changes will endure?

United States

America and the Middle East
Exodus, chapter 41

The Senate
Slimming tips

Esoteric radicals
Red and black

Building in San Francisco
If I had a hammer

The sperm and egg business
Swimming freestyle

Evangelicals after Trump
Two nations under God

The Americas

Elections in El Salvador
The millennial caudillo

The Chango people
A sea change

Bello
A gap between Chile and the rest

Asia

Myanmar
The shooting starts

Price controls in the Philippines
Pig mistake

Internet freedom
Web of regulation

The Fukushima disaster
Nuclear decay

Banyan
Asia’s unjabbed arms

China

Domestic security
Scraping the bones

Dissent in Hong Kong
The law kicks in

Chaguan
Red tourism in Xi’s China

Middle East & Africa

Christians in Iraq
Still bearing the cross

Lebanon
A jab among friends

Homophobia in Africa
Out and preyed on

Nigeria
Tomato truce

Europe

EU border policy
New kings of the wild frontier

France
An end to impunity

Napoleon’s bicentenary
An emperor’s clothes

Armenia
After the war

Alexei Navalny
Prisoner of confusion

Charlemagne
A Swabian success story

Britain

The budget
A game of two halves

Levelling up
The Tees party

Refurbishing Number 10
Grand designs

Scottish politics
A funny smell in Holyrood

Labour in Scotland
Stopping the rot

Unlucky students
Swindled?

Aristofascists
Nazi parties

Bagehot
The art of the steal

International

Debt diplomacy
Here we go again

Business

Vaccine-making
Racing ahead

Business and covid-19
DAX vaxxers

Bartleby
A shot in the dark

Chinese law firms
Expansion, your honour!

Gambling in China
Let the good times roll

The glass-ceiling index
More cracks appear

Socially distant shopping
Drive-through rules

Packaged food
Breadwinners

Schumpeter
The smuggest guys in the room

Finance & economics

Financial markets
The inflation bogeyman

Buttonwood
Lament for the pointy-heads

Greensill Capital
Accounts due

China’s economy
Taper test

Platform economics
The price of fame

Universal basic income
Cheques and balances

Free exchange
The fragile four

Science & technology

Computers and sign language
Unspoken understanding

Face-masks and covid-19
Helpful humidity

Carbon capture and storage
Supergrass

Spies and technology
Machine intelligence

Hacking history
Origami in reverse

Books & arts

Gene-editing
Tomorrow’s world

Cyber-security
Zero hour

Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel
More than human

Artistic licence on screen
History plays

Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Covid-19 vaccines
Six of one

Obituary

Cicely Tyson
Beauty and defiance