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Volume 443 Number 9297
Europe
48 Unblocking Odessa
49 The relief of Kharkiv
50 A new French pm
50 A blow for Olaf Scholz
51 Greece and the press
52 Charlemagne
A parliamentary sitcom
Britain
53 A new normal for travel
54 That bloody protocol
55 Bagehotuksa! uksa!
International
56 A day in the life of the
Russian media
Business
59 SoftBank’s hard landing
60 Does Musk want Twitter?
61 Adani cements his legacy
61 The great unspacing
62 Supermarket crash
63 Bartleby Better
brainstorming
64 Schumpeter Green power
v Biden
Finance&economics
67 Recession watch
68 China’s bleak economy
69 A babymilk shortage
69 Unstablecoins
70 Carbon offsets
71 ButtonwoodIs China
uninvestible?
72 Dodgy stats in India
74 Free exchangeInvesting
in intangibles
Science&technology
75 Graphene’s green future
Culture
78 Comicbook medicine
79 The interspecies age
80 Casanova’s crimes
81 Home Entertainment
Rural tales
81 England’s civil war
82 JohnsonEnter the
dragon app
Economic&financialindicators
84 Statistics on 42 economies
Graphicdetail
85 The Brazilian Amazon has become a net carbon emitter
Obituary
86 Saotome Katsumoto, the man who would not forget