The Economist UK - 21.09.2019

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Contents

The world this week

7 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

13 A warming world

The climate issue

14 The Saudi attacks

Abqaiq the powder keg

16 Israel

King Bibi’s reign is ending

18 Regulating rent

Controlyourinstincts

Letters

20 Onthepurposeofa

company

Briefing

22 Climatechange

Whatgoesup

Britain

29 Lessons in wind power

30 Student bars call time

32 Lib Dems v Brexit

32 Jobs for asylum-seekers

34 Tempest: cleared for

take-off?

36 British Islamists abroad

38 BagehotCameron’s

alternativememoirs

Europe

41 Climate change in Russia

42 Another election in Spain

43 Italy’s Democrats split

43 Albania’s NATO airbase

44 German coal

45 Charlemagne The plight

oftheolive

United States

47 Green New Deals

50 Rent control returns

50 The new new NSA

51 Rudy Giuliani’s adventures

52 LexingtonMark Sanford

The Americas

53 Drought threatens the

Panama Canal

54 El Alto and Evo Morales

56 BelloThe left’s love of

petroleum

Middle East & Africa

57 Conflict in the Gulf

59 Oil markets

60 Israel’s election

61 South Sudan

61 Drought in Malawi

BagehotThis week David

Cameron published his

memoirs. Here we print

an extract from the book

he might have written

had he won the

referendum, page 38

On the cover

Global warming touches on
everything The Economist
writes about. In this issue we
feature a series of articlesthat
look at climate change and
how to cope with it. The
stripes on our cover were
developed by Ed Hawkins of
the University of Reading.
They represent the years from
1850 to 2018 and the colour
marks each year’s
temperature, compared with
theaveragein1971-

• Iran’s dangerous game
  Nobody wants a war in the
  Middle East. That is why
  aggression by Iran and its proxies
  needs a tough response: leader,
  page 14. A strike on Saudi Arabia
  moves a shadowy conflict closer
  to open war, page 57. Saudi
  Aramco tries asserting control
  amid chaos, page 59


• Lessons from a Wall Street
  titanHow Stephen Schwarzman
  built a legacy: Schumpeter,
  page 80


• Why rent controls are
  wrong-headedCapping how
  much landlords get paid is the
  wrong way to help Generation
  Rent: leader,page 18. High
  housing costs are once again
  leading Democrats towards rent
  control, page 50


• Goddess of the Taiwan
  StraitCommunist Party
  bosses love Mazu, a folk
  goddess of the sea: Chaguan,
  page 69