The Economist UK - 31.08.2019

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

11 Brexit

Who’s gonna stop him?

12 Populism

Democracy’s enemies

13 Opioids

Avoidable pain

13 Security in Asia

Slight club

14 Vertical farming

Plant power

Letters

16 On cash, the railways,

Canada, Venezuela,

Wilhelm II, harmony,

contracts

Briefing

19 Hungary

The entanglement

of powers

Britain

23 Prime minister v

Parliament

24 National governments

25 iPads for Scots tots

25 Bury FC, buried

26 Deadline day for PPI

26 Tim Bell, 1941-

27 Odd company names

28 BagehotUnlikely Tory

rebels

Europe

29 Macron bounces back

30 Germany’s state elections

31 Murder, he texted?

31 Italy’s new government

32 CharlemagneEurope

from the air

United States

33 The American economy

34 America’s rip-off estate

agents

36 The other primary

36 Campaign swag

37 Criminal-justice policy

38 LexingtonThe

Kochtopus’s garden

The Americas

39 Colombia’s impoverished

Pacific coast

40 BelloBolsonaro and the

Amazon

Middle East & Africa

41 Israel v Iran

42 Stalemate in Algeria

43 New African airlines

43 End times in Congo?

ChaguanHow China 44 Trouble in Botswana

might bring Hong Kong

to heel without sending

troops from the

mainland, page 51

On the cover

Boris Johnson has sidelined
Parliament and set a course for
a no-deal Brexit. MPs can—and
must—act now to stop him:
leader,page 11. The
government sends MPs home,
page 23. An unlikely bunch of
Conservatives are rebelling:
Bagehot,page 28

• Democracy’s enemy within
  Cynicism is gnawing at Western
  democracies: leader,page 12.
  How the government of Viktor
  Orban hollowed out Hungary:
  briefing, page 19


• Opioids: pain and payouts
  Legal settlements alone will not
  solve America’s opioid crisis:
  leader,page 13. Drugmakers in
  the dock, page 55


• Why vertical farming is on
  the up Would you like some
  vertically grown mizuna with
  that? Leader,page 14. A new way
  to make farming stack up,
  page 68


• Macron re-JovenatedFrance’s
  president reclaims his country ’s
  international role,page 29