Next to blow: Britain’s constitution
The world this week
Leaders
The next to blow
Britain’s constitutional time-bomb
Brexit is already a political crisis. Sooner or later it will become a constitutional crisis, too
Buggins belongs at the back
When picking leaders, the EU should put skill before box-ticking
Surely Europe can find a better president than Manfred Weber?
Calibration problem
How central banks should prepare for the next recession
They must change their targets and find new tools—while avoiding a populist takeover
One thousand and one sleepless nights
The trade war and finance
Alibaba’s experience shows how relations between America and China have soured
Fighting thugs with thugs
Jair Bolsonaro will not defeat crime in Brazil by tolerating militias
Like Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, he thinks more violence is the answer
Letters
On the Sahel, Australia, India, smart speakers, Venezuela, IKEA, joke politicians
Letters to the editor
Briefing
The next crisis
The Brexit referendum and the British constitution
It is not just the country’s politics which are a mess; so is the structure they rest on
Europe
All the colours of the rainbow
Fragmentation comes to the European Parliament. It might improve it
Old continent, new faces
How the European elections will shake up domestic politics
Small is beautiful
Europe’s tiniest states square off in the Olympic mini-games
An enemy of the people-carrier
Norway’s capital is the latest city to declare war on cars
Britain
Brexit and the Tories
Britons are ever more polarised between no-deal and a second referendum
Now for a real test
Can the Brexit Party gain a foothold in Westminster?
End of the road
British planners are sending cars into towns
Nothing to sea here
The travails of a town trying to tempt traffic
Middle East & Africa
Back to the ballot box
Unable to form a government, Binyamin Netanyahu calls an early election
Protection racket
Muhammadu Buhari has big ambitions for Nigerian manufacturing
Liberia’s lurch
President George Weah faces a slumping economy and protests
United States
Hide your crazy
Texan politicians put money into sensible policies
Talking about the weather
Floods and storms are altering American attitudes to climate change
Automatic for the people
How should America fight the next downturn?
Diving into the wreck
Remains of the Clotilda are discovered in southern Alabama
Lonesome whistle
The sociology of country music lyrics
Lexington
Nemesis Pelosi
The Americas
Asia
The ultimate injustice
Most convicts on death row in Pakistan should not be there
In need of a hand
Troubles have grown for India’s grand old party
A departure unmourned
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has resigned
International
Trouble in parasite
Malaria is fighting back against efforts to eliminate it
Aiming for zero
Zambia cuts malaria fatalities, but not the number of cases
Technology Quarterly
Manufacturing
Aircraft construction is being transformed
Propulsion systems
Smaller planes could soon use electric propulsion
Avionics
Pilotless planes are on the way
Aviation and the environment
Using aviation biofuel continues to be difficult
Faster than sound
Supersonic aeroplanes could make a comeback
Urban air mobility
Flying cars are almost here, but they don’t look like cars
Business
Empire builder
Assessing Vincent Bolloré
Green with resolve
Oil majors face shareholder resolutions on climate change
An industry in the dock
Johnson & Johnson stands trial for the opioid crisis
Stuck in orbit
The next stage of Rocket Internet
Building a juggernaut
Fiat Chrysler seeks a merger with Renault
Finance & economics
Flight to safety
Have regulators created a new type of financial monster?
After infrastructure
Jokowi wants to improve the quality of Indonesia’s labour force
Trouble logging in
Bank supervision in America is unfit for the digital age
Science & technology
Autism-spectrum disorder
More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria
Astronomy and evolution
Human beings may owe their existence to nearby supernovas
Satellites versus astronomers
The unexpected brightness of new satellites could ruin the night sky
Culture
The listening cure
A Wall Street trader’s photographic journey to “back row” America
A noble enemy
How Saladin became a hero in the West
Princely drama
A Saudi TV series hints at the change that is afoot
Graphic detail
Europe’s elections
Centrist liberals gained the most power in the EU Parliament
Obituary
His light materials