The Economist - UK (2019-06-01)

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Contents

The world this week

7 A round-up of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 Britain’s constitution

The next to blow

10 The EU’s top jobs

Buggins at the back

10 Central banks

Thinkbigger

12 Thetradewar

Onethousandandone

sleeplessnights

14 Brazil’smilitias

Fightingthugswiththugs

Letters

16 OntheSahel,Australia,

India,smartspeakers,

Venezuela,IKEA,joke

politicians

Briefing

18 TheBritishconstitution

Thereferendumsand

thedamagedone

TechnologyQuarterly

Thefutureofflight

Afterpage 42

Britain

23 The next prime minister

24 The Brexit Party’s big

chance

25 Who are the Tory

members?

25 Higher education

26 Bye-bye bypass

26 Lancing at sea

27 Bagehot Jeremy Corbyn’s

isolation

Europe

28 The European Parliament

elections

29 Domestic consequences

31 Oslo curbs cars

31 Europe’s mini-Olympic

games

32 Charlemagne The

scrambleforplumjobs

United States

33 The changing

midwestern climate

34 Recession planning

35 Raising the Clotilda

36 Sensible, moderate Texas

37 Banning FGM

37 Country-music lyrics

38 LexingtonNemesisPelosi

The Americas

39 Rio de Janeiro’s militias

40 BelloExport or stagnate

42 Mapping Rio’s favelas

Middle East & Africa

43 A new election in Israel

44 Renting sheikhs in Iraq

45 Nigerians get poorer

46 A protectionist racket

46 Corruption in Liberia

ChaguanWhat if China’s

rulers pay no price for the

massacre that ended the

Tiananmen protests 30

years ago? Page 53

Onthecover

SoonerorlaterBrexitwill
become a constitutional crisis:
leader,page 9. The British
constitution is collapsing:
briefing,page 18. Voters are
polarised, page 23. Jeremy
Corbyn is isolated in the
LabourParty:Bagehot,page 27

• Who should run Europe?
  Put skill before box-ticking:
  leader,page 10. The race for
  Europe’s top jobs: Charlemagne,
  page 32. Fragmentation comes
  to the European Parliament,
  page 28. The parliament’s new
  look: graphic detail,page 81


• Alibaba and the trade war
  How relations between America
  and China have soured: leader,
  page 12. Economic tensions spill
  into capital markets, page 64.
  Weaponising China’s stash of
  Treasuries: Free exchange,
  page 68. Does Apple’s boss have
  a Plan B in China? Schumpeter,
  page 62


• Time to retool the FedCentral
  banks need to prepare for the
  next recession: leader,page 10


• Technology Quarterly:
  AviationDespite appearances,
  aircraft have changed a lot—and
  will soon change more, after
  page 42