May 4th 2013

Let’s party like it’s 1793

Leaders

China's future

Xi Jinping and the Chinese dream

The vision of China’s new president should serve his people, not a nationalist state

Corporate social responsibility

Disaster at Rana Plaza

A gruesome accident should make all bosses think harder about what behaving responsibly means

Guantánamo Bay

Enough to make you gag

The prison is a deeply un-American disgrace. It needs to be closed rapidly

Europe’s credit crunch

Mend the money machine

The woes of small businesses in Italy and Spain threaten to be the next twist in the euro saga

Musicals

Do it by the book

Answers to almost all the world’s problems can be found on Broadway

Letters

Letters

On cars, defence spending, liberty, electronic trading, Nigeria, North Korea, countries, porn

Briefing

Xi Jinping’s vision

Chasing the Chinese dream

China’s new leader has been quick to consolidate his power. What does he now want for his country?

United States

The Guantánamo hunger-strike

The oubliette

Californian politics

It’s worth a go

Feral pigs

Pork, chopped

School food

Biting commentary

The economic performance of cities

Following the sun

The Americas

Hydropower in Guyana

Shrouded in secrecy

Asia

Elections in Malaysia

“Ubah” you can believe in?

Flood control in Vietnam

Up a creek

Singapore’s economy

Bashing the metal-bashers

Disaster in Bangladesh

Rags in the ruins

China

The property market

Cat and house

Construction in the west

Build it and they might come

The music scene

Anarchy in the PRC

Middle East & Africa

Kenya’s new government

Bright new faces

Farming in Nigeria

Feed yourself

The Palestinians’ West Bank

Squeeze them out

Egypt and Iran

Pious politics

Europe

France and Germany

A tandem in trouble

Italy’s new government

Unanswered questions

France’s defence review

Of ships and sealing wax

Iceland’s election

Right back

Danish politics

Hard lessons

Britain

Private schools abroad

On the playing fields of Shanghai

British fighters in Syria

Will they come home to roost?

An infrastructure exhibit

Pipe dreams

North Sea oil

Drill, maybe, drill

British politics

The hourglass electorate

Prisoner privileges

Thinner porridge

The Thames estuary

Full metal riverside

International

The war on gays

Strange bedfellows

Muslim opinion

Minds unmade

Identity politics

Called up

Business

Musical theatre

The tills are alive

Internet retailing

Tax in cyberspace

Tourism in Egypt

Arab spring break

Office life

Sitting pretty

Entrepreneurs in America

Who creates jobs?

Energy firms and climate change

Unburnable fuel

Finance & economics

Prosecuting bankers

Blind justice

Buttonwood

Money to burn

Trade in Latin America

Oceans apart

American bond markets

Term report

Japan’s public debt

Don’t mention the debt

Free exchange

Broken transmission

Science & technology

Miniature flying robots

Robodiptera

Genetically modified trees

Into the wildwood

SpaceShipTwo blasts off

Space oddity

Academic publishing

Free-for-all

Books & arts

Technology and the future

Feel the force

New fiction

Fatty issue

Digestion

Down the hatch

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary