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The world this week • To 6am GMT December 2nd 2021
Danger ahead • Omicron amplifies three dangers that stalk the global economy
SALT in the wounds • The Democrats’ fiscal policy makes a mockery of their progressive pledges
Local heroes • For vibrant, competitive internet businesses, look to emerging markets
Bad medicine • Britain’s planned ban on conversion therapy is not what it seems
Who will police Interpol? • The election of a worrying new president is just the latest thing to go wrong
Letters
Watchful waiting • LONDON, MAINZ AND SAN FRANCISCO
A tax plan for the upper, upper class • WASHINGTON, DC
Message in a bottle • BENTON HARBOR
Shot spotty • CHICAGO
Roe’s last stand • NEW YORK
All at sea • NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
Beep beep, bang bang • CHICAGO
Son of a slave • Lessons in racial history from Daniel Smith, perhaps the last direct link to slavery
Missing links • TIJUANA
A leftward turn • Xiomara Castro will be Central America’s first female president
Pictures at two exhibitions • The culture war over Latin America’s colonial past
The patter of fewer tiny feet • DELHI
Ready for take-off? • BISHKEK
A stop in the ocean • The UN promotes floating cities
At the sharp end • TOKYO
A familiar script • China’s influence in the Solomon Islands is one factor in an explosion of violence
Against the tide • SHANGHAI
Ballsy • Women’s tennis takes a stand against China. Will other sports dare follow?
Why China says it is a democracy • Dysfunction in the West tempts the party to make risky boasts
Omicro-aggressions • CAPE TOWN
Seeding the cloud • KAMPALA
Pomp and circumspection • DAKAR
In need of water, not uranium • DUBAI
Drinking and driving • Will a car race mark the end of the kingdom’s ban on alcohol?
The tests of tolerance • MADRID
Accenting the negative • MADRID
Waiting for the freeze • KYIV
High-pressure umbrage • BERLIN
Guess who? • ROME
On bullshit: Brussels edition • Why bullshit rules in the EU
Missing the mark • A proposed bill banning conversion therapy could do more harm than good
Open book • China looms ever larger for British spies, says mi6’s chief
Jordan Peterson and the lobster • Anatomy of a cancellation
Interpolitics • ISTANBUL, MOSCOW AND ROME
Hot tropics • HONG KONG
Exiting the Twittersphere • SAN FRANCISCO
The office of the future • Cubicles are out. Bars, neighbourhoods and sensors are in
Ghosts of Christmas past • Mariah Carey’s seasonal ubiquity illustrates the new economics of streaming
Cancel culture, Beijing-style • HONG KONG
Billion-dollar blueprints • NEW YORK
No more tears • Can Johnson & Johnson put the taint of scandal behind it?
Omicronomics • HONG KONG
Hazards ahead • WASHINGTON, DC
Squeezing the balloon • NEW YORK
Over flows • HONG KONG
After the flood • The frenzy for spacs has waxed and waned. Has that changed how they work?
Point of low returns? • OSLO
Taming wildcats • The explosion in stablecoins revives a debate around “free banking”
Flipping heck! • How to generate better,...