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The World in was renamed The World Ahead with this edition (stated in the editor's letter).
Britain is at particular risk of stagflation, due to post-Brexit labour shortages and its dependence on expensive natural gas.
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Meanwhile, as much as half of business travel is gone for good.
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2022 will be the first year in which more people go to space as paying passengers than government employees, carried aloft by rival space-tourism firms.
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China will finish its new space station.
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And nasa will crash a space probe into an asteroid, in a real-life mission that sounds like a Hollywood film.
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Expect protests directed at both host countries, though boycotts by national teams seem unlikely.
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We correctly predicted Emmanuel Macron’s win in France and Jair Bolsonaro’s loss in Brazil, that “Bongbong” Marcos would prevail in the Philippines, and that the MPLA would hold on in Angola.
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noting that she had “a fighting chance of becoming Italy’s first female prime minister”
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our suggestion that Boris Johnson had more to fear from his own backbench MPs than from the opposition Labour Party
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we were right to suggest that Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee celebrations in June would be the last great spectacle of her reign.
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As expected, China’s zero-covid policy hampered growth, but Xi Jinping refused to change course.
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