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Britain

Cummings, not going: Boris Johnson’s top aide refuses to quit

A row over the alleged breach of lockdown rules stokes anti-elite anger of the sort they once harnessed

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Finance & economics

Covid-19 forced trading floors to close. They’ll be back

They are likely to last for as long as traders want them

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United States

How the world’s premier public-health agency was handcuffed

The CDC has been absent with leave during the spread of covid-19

Middle East & Africa

Egypt chose a looser lockdown. Its economy is still in crisis

Other Arab states will face similar problems

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Business

Schumpeter: Farewell for now to a golden age of drinking

The pandemic has hurt the booze business

Daily chart

Society will not be the same after lockdowns are lifted

China’s experience suggests that social lives will suffer even as work lives return to normal

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Books & arts

Confined in prison, Marco Polo roamed across the world

His travelogue shows that you can go anywhere in your imagination

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International

Covid-19 is undoing years of progress in curbing global poverty

Britain

London may have gone into a covid-accelerated decline

Science & technology

The risk of severe covid-19 is not uniform

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Early projections of covid-19 in America underestimated its severity

By luck or by design, they have improved markedly since

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In context: Tackling climate change

Leaders

Countries should seize the moment to flatten the climate curve

The pandemic shows how hard it will be to decarbonise—and creates an opportunity

Science & technology

New solar cells extract more energy from sunshine

Much greater efficiency is coming

Schools brief

The world’s energy system must be transformed completely

Briefing

Carbon offsetting is essential to tackling climate change

Special report: International banking

Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance

And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas

As China goes global, its banks are coming out, too

European banks are losing their influence

China wants to make the yuan a central-bank favourite

And it is playing a trump card in order to achieve it

The financial world’s nervous system is being rewired

And it is not America that is doing it

Can China be trusted to be a responsible financial power?

There are still a lot of questions that it must answer

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