The Economist - UK (2022-04-09)

The Economist April 9th 2022 3

Contents

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On the cover

The world this week

6 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

9 France votes

Why Macron matters

10 War crimes

Indict is right

10 The world economy

Recession roulette

11 The politics of paranoia

Imaginary hobgoblins

12 Technology

After the smartphone

Letters

14 On gay people in Florida,

Hollywood, oligarchs,

the Falklands war, school

closures, exchange rates,

Europe

Briefing

15 The French election

Mr Macron’s new

challenge

Britain

19 Post-Brexit immigration

20 Reviving the Thames

21 Consumer credit

21 Suella Braverman’s credo

22 Selling Channel 4

24 No-fault divorce

25 BagehotThe cruel state

Europe

27 Russia’s war crimes

28 Ukraine fights back

30 Educating Ukrainian

refugees

30 Turkish sanction-busting

31 Hungary’s election

32 CharlemagneResisting

Orban

United States

33 Farming boom, rural

bust

34 The Supreme Court

35 Amazon gets a union

35 The opioid crisis

36 Filling up in New Jersey

37 The baby business

38 LexingtonBill Burns

and the bear

The Americas

39 Corruption in Brazil

Middle East & Africa

41 Sudan faces collapse

42 Graft in Mozambique

43 Single women in Egypt

43 Battered Benghazi

44 Taxing the Middle East

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The fate of the French
president matters far beyond
France: leader,page 9.
Emmanuel Macron has had a
remarkable run which looks
likely to continue; but things
are getting harder: briefing,
page 15

Recession rouletteA toxic mix
of risks hangs over the world
economy: leader, page 10.Are
labour markets in the rich world
too tight? Page 63.Why bonds
are signalling recession even as
stocks have been buoyant:
Buttonwood, page 66

The Rubicon of Russia’s war
crimesInvestigate and charge
Russian war criminals, even if
they are never brought to
justice: leader, page 10. As
Russian soldiers fall back from
the capital, they leave behind
evidence of systematic war
crimes, page 27

Lockdown in ShanghaiExtreme
restrictions in China’s financial
hub indicate a failure of policy,
page 49.Raging outbreaks show
that Omicron is deadly in
unvaccinated people: graphic
detail, page 81

What follows the smartphone?
In Silicon Valley the search is on
for the next big tech platform:
leader, page 12,and analysis,
page 55

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