Owing to the pandemic: Britain’s budget

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As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/09/05/what-kind-of-prime-minister-will-liz-truss-be?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content. ...

For a while, closed borders and strict contact-tracing held the coronavirus at bay. What lessons to take now the Delta variant has <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/07/24/australias-covid-19-strategy-is-being-tested?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&u ...

The “Autumn statement” was filled with belt-tightening, from stealthy tax rises to public-service cuts. But perhaps ...  Show more

Where governments enacted zero-tolerance coronavirus strategies, numbers indeed stayed low. That was before the Delta variant. We ask how countries can now <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/09/asian-countries-are-at-last-abandoning-zero-covid-strategies?utm_campa ...