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Europe

37 Danish immigration

38 The Lolland exception

40 Bulgarian brooms

42 Charlemagne Macron’s

tricky present

Britain

43 AstraZeneca’s triumph

44 Gay rights in Northern

Ireland

45 Oxford Street’s troubles

46 Bagehot Meet Liz Truss

International

47 The spread of the

Omicron variant

Business

49 Shipping is still stuck

50 A year in four charts

52 The battle for the cloud

53 BartlebyTeamwork and

the Beatles

54 SchumpeterLords of the

metaverse

Finance&economics

56 Private markets

57 Russia and swift

58 Inflation in America

59 Local debt in China

60 Free exchange

Monetarism returns

Science&technology

61 A tale of bees and mites

62 Real fintech

63 Geomagnetic archaeology

Books&arts

65 Saudi Arabia’s new film

industry

Economic&financialindicators

68 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

69 The biggest news stories of 2021

Obituary

70 Antony Sher, an electric Shakespearean actor