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Italy's election: Send in the clowns

The world’s fastest-growing continent: Aspiring Africa

American energy and economics: Better out than in

The British economy: Moody blues

Yahoo: Mayer culpa

Letters: On American politics, currencies, shale gas, pensioners, the Catholic church, business and the armed forces

Iraq ten years on: The slow road back

Iraqi oil: A hard tap to turn

The economy: Waiting for the chop

Energy policy: Biofuelery

Los Angeles’s mayoral election: A Pacific plod

Voting rights: Preclearance, past and present

Building infrastructure: A river runs through it

Health care: An offer they can’t refuse

The coinage: The penny drops

Lexington: The view from Maine streets

Power in Mexico: “The Teacher” in detention

Cuba’s leaders: The new man

Justice in Haiti: Double standards

Urban transport in Latin America: Better by bici

Colombia’s economy: The black stuff

Japan and America: Spin and substance

Thailand’s illegal immigrants: A deadly cocktail

India’s Muslims: Growing, and neglected

Afghanistan: Yankee beards go home

Banyan: Not as smooth as silk

Urban stability: Treating the symptoms

Tax reform: A better service game

Kenyan election: Don’t mention the war

Lebanon and Syria: In a pickle

Egyptian politics: Grim tidings

Italy’s election: Ungovernability wins

The Five Star Movement: The crickets come out

France’s economy: Austerity stakes

Dual citizenship in Germany: Jus sanguinis revisited

Russian politics: Putin’s purges

Ukraine and the European Union: An awkward partnership

Charlemagne: Rome’s bad spell

Sterling: Weaker still and weaker

The Bank of England: Negative response

Farmers and the EU: Aggro-cultural

House building: The lie of the land

Lord Rennard: How not to do it

Keith O’Brien and his church: Caledonian spirit

Waheed Alli: Lord hunch

Bagehot: Machiavelli in the Treasury

Refugees: Flight to nowhere

Conditional aid: Carrots all round

Geriatric prisoners: In it for life

ISBN numbers: Book-keeping

Africa rising: A hopeful continent

Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone: Tired of war

Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria: Bye-bye Big Men

Niger, Algeria, Libya, Egypt and Sudan: Courage, mon brave

Ethiopia and Kenya: Doing it my way

Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana: The wealth beneath

South Africa: Cheerleaders and naysayers

The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos

Smartphone operating systems: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Japan Tobacco: Turning over a new leaf

Music: Something to sing about

Doctors and drug companies: Let the sunshine in

Europe’s defence industry: A hard pounding, this

Schumpeter: Companies’ moral compasses

Schumpeter: Correction: African stockmarkets

Banking in Africa: Continent of dreams

Africa’s bond markets: Kings of the wild frontier

Private equity: When the music gets you

America’s mortgage markets: Spread besting

Buttonwood: Voting but not counting

Corporate governance in Hong Kong: Of privacy and opacity

Monetary policy in China: Don’t go Zhou

America’s cheap gas: Bonanza or bane

Free exchange: Robocolleague

Solar-powered flight: Its moment in the sun

Pollinators: Variety is the spice of life

R&D; in America: Bad medicine

Marine biology: Finding Nemo’s role

Surviving strokes: Living on

Iran’s revolution: Waiting for God

America and the second world war: The workshop heroes

20th-century English music: A Suffolk lad

New poetry: Rock chick

R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions

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