8 Contents The Economist December 18th 2021
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Volume 441 Number 9276
Europe
37 Danish immigration
38 The Lolland exception
40 Bulgarian brooms
42 Charlemagne Macron’s
tricky present
Britain
43 AstraZeneca’s triumph
44 Gay rights in Northern
Ireland
45 Oxford Street’s troubles
46 Bagehot Meet Liz Truss
International
47 The spread of the
Omicron variant
Business
49 Shipping is still stuck
50 A year in four charts
52 The battle for the cloud
53 BartlebyTeamwork and
the Beatles
54 SchumpeterLords of the
metaverse
Finance&economics
56 Private markets
57 Russia and swift
58 Inflation in America
59 Local debt in China
60 Free exchange
Monetarism returns
Science&technology
61 A tale of bees and mites
62 Real fintech
63 Geomagnetic archaeology
Books&arts
65 Saudi Arabia’s new film
industry
Economic&financialindicators
68 Statistics on 42 economies
Graphicdetail
69 The biggest news stories of 2021
Obituary
70 Antony Sher, an electric Shakespearean actor