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Europe

55 Train troubles

56 The Belarus-Poland border

57 Covid-

57 Turkey’s banana spat

58 Charlemagne A fight over

minimum wages

Britain

59 Small nuclear reactors

60 Going green, at a price

61 Bagehot Brexiteers’

paranoid triumphalism

International

62 The rapid spread of

assisted dying

Business

65 Hollywood’s talent wars

66 Hot commercial property

67 BartlebyWeird bosses

68 Zero covid in China

69 General Electric breaks up

69 Strife at Volkswagen

70 The corporate metaverse

72 SchumpeterThe flywheel

delusion

Finance&economics

73 China’s tycoon banks

75 Crypto’s funding craze

75 America’s inflation shock

76 Debt-for-nature swaps

77 ButtonwoodThe appeal

of cash

78 Free exchangeLessons

from Zillow

Science&technology

79 Diagnosing dementia

80 Those climate goals

82 Plastics and pathogens

82 Better blackcurrants

83 New covid-19 treatments

Books&arts

84 Dirty money

85 Witchcraft

86 The cold war on the couch

86 An art collection opens up

87 JohnsonDouble trouble

Economic&financialindicators

88 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

89 Twitter's algorithm favours conservatives

Obituary

90 Aaron Beck, the man who revolutionised psychiatry