1. 2025-02-20 The World this Week - This week’s covers

2. Bean there, done that

3. Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)

4. China’s alarming sex imbalance

5. Singapore’s leader of the opposition is convicted of lying

6. Only Asia can help America counter China’s shipbuilding prowess

7. Syria’s next steps towards a new order

8. Egypt and Jordan are struggling to make themselves useful to Donald Trump

9. Rwanda tightens its grip over eastern Congo

10. Sudan’s national army is on the brink of retaking the capital

11. Africa’s young “generation hustle” hits the big time

12. Why so many children in America have ADHD

13. In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant

14. Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters

15. DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism

16. Germany’s mind-bending electoral maths

17. Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitions

18. Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policies

19. Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars

20. Leaving the seat of power

21. Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly

22. Xi Jinping wants the private sector to thrive again

23. How to help young Africans thrive

24. 2025-02-20 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

25. 2025-02-20 The World this Week - Business

26. 2025-02-20 The World this Week - Politics

27. Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs

28. The US-Russia dogfight to sell India fighter jets

29. Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up

30. Javier Milei’s crypto misadventure

31. China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off

32. An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship

33. Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd

34. Shein attempts to mend its public image before its London debut

35. India’s other, little-known infrastructure revolution

36. For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point

37. To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help

38. Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right

39. Should all knives with pointed ends be banned?

40. Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one

41. A moment of great peril for Ukraine and Europe

42. Donald Trump: the would-be king

43. Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals

44. Can Europe withstand four years of Trumpian assault?

45. How Britons became happy hawks on Russia

46. Reciprocal tariffs really mean chaos for global trade

47. Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything

48. How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science

49. Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university

50. Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky

51. Do lonely people have shorter lives?

52. New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia

53. Which countries provide the most, and least, support to Ukraine?

54. Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

55. Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?

56. American inflation looks increasingly worrying

57. How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump

58. Blighty newsletter: Luxury beliefs (Kemi Badenoch edition)

59. The nightmare of a Trump-Putin deal leaves Europe in shock

60. Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires

61. Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

62. Rachel Reeves is not alone in inflating her résumé

63. Team Trump’s shakedown diplomacy

64. Donald Trump’s assault on Europe

65. It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too

66. Will Europe return to Putin’s gas?

67. Javier Milei is betting big on an Argentine oil gusher

68. So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than reality

69. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s pick-and-choose federalism

70. Alice Weidel, Germany’s most vilified—and powerful—female politician

71. How will the German election be decided?

72. Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?

73. Donald Shoup knew how to get cities going

74. Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence

75. Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy”

76. Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies

77. Can Indonesia make its Top Gun dreams a reality?

78. New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China

79. South-East Asian producers are being hammered by Chinese imports

80. Hizbullah’s decline is a boon for Lebanon’s new government

81. Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life

82. Homs’s troubles show the challenges facing Syria’s leaders

83. How to go from fish lover to fish farmer

84. For Donald Trump, South Africa is DEI in the form of a country

85. Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers

86. Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States

87. How Bob Dylan broke free

88. Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury

89. What happened next at USAID

90. Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told

91. Is France’s Le Chat in fact a cat?

92. A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey

93. Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street

94. Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times

95. A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area

96. Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod

97. Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling

98. Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs

99. How to get people to resign

100. Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry?

101. Chinese cars are taking over the global south

102. The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise

103. Countering China’s diplomatic coup

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105. 2025-02-13 The World this Week - Business

106. 2025-02-13 The World this Week - Politics

107. London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England

108. 2025-02-13 The World this Week - This week’s covers

109. Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral

110. Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?

111. Why you should repay your mortgage early

112. How AI will divide the best from the rest

113. The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research

114. How India became an unexpected role model for Europe

115. America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy

116. Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?

117. Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?

118. Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quo

119. Donald Trump starts “immediate” talks with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine

120. After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong

121. Donald Trump’s first 100 days

122. Instead of luxury condos, Gaza faces a resumption of war

123. Which goods are most vulnerable to American tariffs on China?

124. Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

125. AI is being used to model football matches

126. A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic

127. How artificial intelligence is changing baseball

128. Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?

129. Ukraine’s president fears Donald Trump is keeping him out of the loop

130. Transcript: An interview with Volodymyr Zelensky

131. Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

132. Elon Musk’s 97bn offer is a nuisance for Sam Altman’s OpenAI

133. BP is underperforming and under pressure

134. Is MAGA great for India?

135. Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyard

136. Blighty newsletter: A country trapped in zero-sum thinking

137. Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm

138. It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe

139. Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz

140. Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threat

141. German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape

142. China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan

143. What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?

144. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s scheming is costing America

145. Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult”

146. What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?

147. Does intermittent fasting work?

148. Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life

149. Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare

150. Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China

151. China is infiltrating Taiwan’s armed forces

152. Donald Trump and Japan’s Ishiba Shigeru make for an odd couple

153. Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban

154. Japan could finally face its own #MeToo crisis

155. India’s attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success

156. A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on

157. Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets

158. Ecuador chooses a leader amid murder, blackouts and stagnation

159. How Mexico and Canada handled Trump’s tariff threat

160. Donald Trump is turning payback into policy

161. New York City commits to involuntary commitment

162. Florida comes to Washington, DC

163. Can Europe afford to be the world’s last free-trader?

164. Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia

165. Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive?

166. The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible

167. British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets

168. Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one

169. Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone

170. Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow

171. Oxford and Cambridge are too small

172. Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back?

173. An encounter with the reception desk

174. Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs

175. How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region

176. The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers

177. 2025-02-06 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

178. 2025-02-06 The World this Week - Business

179. 2025-02-06 The World this Week - Politics

180. Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown

181. 2025-02-06 The World this Week - This week’s cover

182. Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth

183. Europe has no escape from stagnation

184. When will remote workers see their pay cut?

185. Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves

186. Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs

187. Don’t propose with a diamond

188. It’s not over: Donald Trump could still blow up global trade

189. The vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that is Scam Inc

190. America’s scheme for Gaza contains much to regret

191. Wanted: a Britain economics writer

192. Must Leeds always lose?

193. The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping

194. The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions

195. How to invest like a MAGA bigwig

196. Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk

197. Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes

198. Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky

199. Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum

200. The Labour government’s choice of messengers reflects its caution

201. Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American

202. RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate

203. Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights?

204. Why India isn’t winning the contest with China

205. Allies will not appease Donald Trump forever

206. Blighty newsletter: Inside Starmer’s Brexit reset

207. Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire

208. The Trump tariff saga offers Canada’s Liberals a lifeline

209. Binyamin Netanyahu is about to discover if Donald Trump is friend or foe

210. Elon Musk is shredding America’s government like he did Twitter

211. How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain

212. Speeches in Britain’s Parliament are getting shorter—and worse

213. Donald Trump’s tariffs defy geopolitical logic

214. Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?

215. An interview with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president

216. Europe races to confront America’s trade war

217. Canada, China, Mexico and the art of retaliation

218. Donald Trump’s new trade war on China is also an opioid war

219. Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started

220. Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before

221. France’s bitter retreat from west Africa

222. Checks and Balance newsletter: What 1970s television reveals about America

223. What Israel and Gaza can learn from past ceasefires

224. Are ice baths good for you?

225. How DeepSeek will upend the AI pecking order

226. Mauro Morandi needed to abandon consumer society

227. As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring

228. The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs

229. China needs its frightened officials to save the economy

230. Why Taiwanese youth complain of becoming “housing slaves”

231. Is Cambodia slipping out of China’s orbit?

232. Who is Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s possible next president?

233. Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria

234. The fall of Goma heralds more bloodshed in eastern Congo

235. Brazil’s ragged finances are holding back its green ambitions

236. Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela

237. Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south

238. Donald Trump’s Defining Decade

239. An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020

240. Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield

241. Meet Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists

242. The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes

243. Inside Europe, border checks are creeping back

244. Many Britons are waiting 12 hours at A&E

245. Is British justice too secretive?

246. Britain’s oldest newspaper is a treasure trove of trivia

247. Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed

248. Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper

249. What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison

250. The allure of the company town

251. From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue

252. Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much

253. No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada

254. 2025-01-30 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

255. 2025-01-30 The World this Week - Business

256. 2025-01-30 The World this Week - Politics

257. Despite fears of a global tax war, Donald Trump has a chance to make peace

258. 2025-01-30 The World this Week - This week’s covers

259. The Quad finally gets serious on security

260. How to use “maximum pressure” to stop an Iranian bomb

261. Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might think

262. Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?

263. Georgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions

264. Tech tycoons have got the Jevons paradox wrong

265. Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front

266. Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to

267. Around the world, an anti-red-tape revolution is taking hold

268. By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself

269. America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk

270. The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama

271. A day of drama in the Bundestag

272. Donald Trump goes to war with his employees

273. The rise of the Net-Zero Dad

274. DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley

275. Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growth

276. A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin

277. Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding

278. Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index

279. Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos

280. Kash Patel is a crackpot

281. A big, beautiful Trump deal with China?

282. Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?

283. How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in America

284. Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins

285. Iran’s alarming nuclear dash will soon test Donald Trump

286. America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation

287. Blighty newsletter: Why Trump’s tariffs might spare Britain

288. Rwanda does a Putin in Congo

289. What the rise of bubble tea says about British high streets

290. DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets

291. Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters

292. The White House has been fluid on gender for a decade

293. Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa

294. Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety

295. Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling

296. A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president

297. Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?

298. François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again

299. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump revives McKinley’s imperial legacy

300. Tom Homan, unleashed