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Volume 434 Number 9185

Europe

39 Putin’s power grab

40 Local elections in France

41 Germany’s pay gap

42 CharlemagneBorder

brutality

Britain

43 The NHS and covid-

44 Britain’s budget

45 BagehotThe meaning of

conservatism

International

46 Covid-19 quarantines

48 Fatality rates

Business

49 India’s troubled startups

50 The anti-covid industry

51 Bartleby Sick leave

52 Multi-cloud computing

52 CEO stakeholderism

53 Schumpeter Accenture’s

rise

Briefing

54 The house that Jamie

built

Finance & economics

57 Risks in credit markets

58 The oil-price war

59 Italy’s virus response

59 Entering a bear market

60 An Indian bank rescue

61 Buttonwood The dollar

in a time of crisis

62 Free exchangeThe cost

ofpandemics

Science & technology

63 Ocean sensors

64 Why turtles eat plastic

65 Battlefield nuclear energy

65 The smallest dinosaur?

Books & arts

66 Protest music in Chile

67 Among the hungry

68 Colum McCann’s novel

68 Traces of the

Anthropocene

69 JohnsonThe language

ofpolicy

Economic & financial indicators

72 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

73 Foottraffichascrateredincitiesaffectedbycovid-

Obituary

74 Freeman Dyson, re-imaginer of the universe