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4 Contents The EconomistFebruary 6th 2021

Volume 438 Number 9231

Europe

41 Italy’s next prime minister

42 Alexei Navalny

43 Nord Stream 2 limps on

43 Sweden’s lonely film

festival

44 CharlemagneThe

vaccineblamegame

Britain

45 The City and Brexit

46 Captain Sir Tom Moore

47 BagehotBoris rides high

International

48 The future of nightclubs

Business

50 Amazon after Bezos

51 Daimler and Benz part

ways

52 China Inc retreats home

53 Cook v Zuck

53 Football’s TV drought

54 Bartleby Executive

short-termism

55 Schumpeter ExxonMobil

Finance & economics

56 Retail investing

59 High-frequency traders

59 WallStreetBets

60 China’s capital outflows

60 German regulation

61 Buttonwood Predatory

trading

62 Free exchangeThe

economicsofbiodiversity

Science & technology

63 Manufacturing vaccines

64 Variants and vaccines

65 Daughters and divorce

65 Deep-sea plastic oases

66 How fish grew legs

Books & arts

67 Abuse in France

68 Chaos in Karachi

69 Climate-change fiction

69 The death of age

70 Proust and the people

Economic & financial indicators

72 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

73 ThefavouritestocksofWallStreetBets

Obituary

74 Nikolai Antoshkin, hero of Chernobyl