The Economist - UK (2019-06-29)

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

11 Financial services

The City and Brexit

12 The Gulf crisis

How to contain Iran

13 Turkey

Democracy bites back

13 Climate change

States’rights

14 Languageandthelaw

Sillysausages

Letters

17 Oninvestments,New

York,pensions,English,

Latin,theConservatives

Briefing

18 AmericaandIran

Thenarrowinggyre

Britain

21 The future of health care

22 Monsieur Boris Johnson

23 Revisiting the backstop

23 How the 0.01% live

24 Universities’ London

campuses

25 The sociology of steroids

26 BagehotLosingScotland

Europe

27 Turkey’s new challenger

28 Albania’s crisis

29 France’s doomed

Republican party

29 Rubbish in Russia

32 European demography

33 Charlemagne Climate

culturewars

United States

34 States and climate change

35 E. Jean Carroll

36 Hospital bills

36 Prison architecture

37 Women’s football

38 LexingtonReparations

Essay: The South Asian

monsoon

39 The cloud messenger

The Americas

45 Canada’s election

46 Colombia cut in two

47 BelloThe rights and

wrongs of amnesties

Middle East & Africa

48 China reconsiders Africa

49 Ethiopia’s failed coup

50 Seeking justice in Gambia

50 The Trump peace plan

51 Airports in the Arab world

BelloAre political

amnesties always a bad

idea? Page 47

On the cover

The City, the world’s biggest
international financial centre,
is facing its toughest test:
leader,page 11. Brexit and
political turmoil have broken
the spell of London as the
world’s capital of capital,
page 67

• Iran, America and the Bomb
  Negotiation, not confrontation,
  is the way to contain Iran: leader,
  page 12. An unwanted war is not
  necessarily an unlikely one:
  briefing, page 18


• China’s world-class army
  President Xi Jinping wants
  China’s armed forces to be ready
  to take on all-comers by 2050.
  He has done more to achieve
  this than any of his predecessors,
  page 56


• Will a robot really take your
  job?A notorious forecast about
  the automation of jobs has been
  misunderstood, says one of its
  authors: Schumpeter,page 66


• How elephants can help cure
  cancersIn oncology, the proper
  study of mankind may not be
  man, but other animals—
  especially big ones,page 75