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Volume 441 Number 9270

Europe

45 Draghi’s Italy

46 Portugal’s government

falls

48 Climate and gastronomy

48 Gay clubs in Georgia

49 Turks in Germany

50 Charlemagne The eu’s

noisy neighbour

Britain

51 Tory sleaze, again

52 Government v judges

53 Bagehot Blue Leviathan

International

54 Forests and climate

change

Business

57 Pricing power

58 Basketball in China

59 Newsprint’s soaring costs

59 Germany’s pay battle

60 Old it’s new tricks

61 BartlebyBack to the office

62 SchumpeterBig oil’s gas

puzzle

Finance&economics

63 Growth in America

64 Investors v central banks 

65 High­inflation countries

66 African fintech expands

67 Buttonwood Lessons

from physics

68 Free exchangeGreedy

jobs and the pay gap

Science&technology

69 Cement and the climate 

70 Green aircraft fuel

72 Optimising robots

74 How eels navigate

74 A bloody funeral mask

Books&arts

75 Lessons from the Greek

revolution

76 Women and philosophy

77 Wole Soyinka’s new novel

77 The power of BookTok

78 Celebrating Edvard Munch

Economic&financialindicators

79 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

80 A small handful of items are driving inflation in America

Obituary

82 Bernard Haitink, servant of music