The Economist - UK (2021-11-20)

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Contents

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On the cover

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

13 Bureaucracy unbound

Big government

14 Housing

Blaming landlords

16 Jihad in Africa

The next Afghanistan

16 Chile

Cautionary tale

18 The metaverse

Don’t mock it

Letters

20 On vaccine passports,

maths, Western Sahara,

climate change, Joe Biden,

French acronyms

Briefing

23 Government spending

It just keeps growing

Britain

27 The struggling nhs

28 How racist is cricket?

30 Asian swing voters

30 The fizzy labour market

32 Family, place, destiny

34 Are freeports worthwhile?

35 Bagehot Britain’s divided

establishment

Europe

37 The grumpy French

38 Belarus, Poland and the eu

38 A Georgian hunger-strike

39 Germany’s nukes

40 Turkey and Cyprus

41 Charlemagne Europe’s

last communists

United States

43 MacKenzie Scott’s

philanthropy

44 The Rittenhouse trial

45 Booming Catholic schools

46 Puerto Rico, success story

46 Spending and voting

47 Lowering drug prices

48 LexingtonPete Buttigieg’s

impossible job

The Americas

49 Divided Chile

50 Cuba’s squelched protest

50 Migrants in Chile

51 BelloThe ambiguities of

Peronism

Middle East & Africa

53 War in the Sahel

54 Bombings in Uganda

55 Israel’s crime wave

56 Tunisia’s rubbish

56 Lebanon’s football fiasco

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Bartleby The business

phrasebook: a short guide

to what your colleagues

really mean, page 69

As the state’s footprint
expands, how should classical
liberals respond? Leader,
page 13.Why government gets
bigger almost all the time:
briefing,page 23

The next AfghanistanTo prevail
against jihadists in the Sahel, the
West must learn from past
mistakes: leader, page 16.The
fight against Muslim extremists
is going badly in Mali, page 53

Why are the French so
grumpy?The country is doing
quite well, but doesn’t see it,
page 37.Far-right ideas are
gaining respectability in France.
They have deep roots, page 85

Housing: don’t shun big
landlordsHostility towards
private equity ’s push into
property is misguided, leader,
page 14.As housing costs rocket,
governments take aim at
investors, page 79

Communist Party capitalists
China’s authorities are
tightening their grip on the
private sector, putting its
growth model at risk, page 67

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