Contents
1 Editorial 5 Contributors 6 Letters
Up front
8 HOW TO FIX Air travel
With smart offsets, the joy of flying can be saved 9 WHAT YOU NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT... Carrie Symonds
Why she’s getting her way
plus In fact 10 IN PRAISE OF LOST CAUSES Whitehall knowing best
Decentralisers misunderstand how government actually works plus Stephen Collins’s
cartoon strip 11 AT LAW Rights, wrongs and
unwritten rules 12 SPOTLIGHT ON Tanzania A Covid-denying president has
died: what’s next? 13 SPEED DATA Profit amid plague
Who’s had a good pandemic? & c
Essays
Cover story
NEW NORMAL
16 Taking liberties The government locked down in an illiberal and undemocratic way. There will be lasting scars
22 The costs of the cure Big Pharma’s iron grip on the vaccine patents could prevent worldwide protection
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THE DUEL Is eliminating Covid-19 worth it?
PROSPECT
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
30 De-generation How the age divide is tearing society— and politics—apart
ETERNAL VIGILANCE
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PROSPECT PORTRAIT A trick of the light India’s leader Narendra Modi is everything except what he seems
BEYOND BORDERS
42 The very cold war A new scramble for the Arctic puts the region’s fragile ecology at risk &
48 We called for workers, but people came How Turkish Germans are finally finding their voice
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