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Indonesia The danger has
not yet passed for victims of
the earthquake and tsunami,
page 35
The gig economy How
governments should deal with
the rise of short-termwork:
leader, page14. The worries
about gig-economy workers
are mostly overblown, page 64.
Amazon raises the minimum
wage in America and Britain,
page 24
GE John Flannery could not
reverse the mistakes of former
chiefs rapidly enough. Will
Larry Culp do better? Page 57
Bullying Two articles look at
school bullying—first in its
age-old, physical variety and
then its digital form, page 55
Britain
52 The Conservative Party
Succession battle
53 Wembley stadium
An own-goal?
54 Bagehot
Brexit’s true believers
International
55 School bullying
The unhappiest days
of their lives
56 Cyber-bullying
Clicks and stones
Business
57 General Electric
Blame game
58 Bartleby
Keep calm and go home
59 Generation gap
Millennial longing
59 Thyssenkrupp
This end, cropped
60 Chinese trademarks
Pigs to market
61 Tesla
One hand off the wheel
61 Facebook’s woes
GrrrDPR
62 Shipping sets sail
Shiver me timbers
Finance and economics
64 The gig economy
Serfs up
66 Buttonwood
Keeping it real
67 Indian non-bank finance
Lurking in the shadows
67 Australian banks
The charge sheet
68 The IMF
Go, Gita Gopinath
68 Economics research
Tyranny of the few
69 Pensions in Portugal
One foot in the Algarve
70 Free exchange
Companies and political
influence
Science and technology
71 The Nobel prizes
Trophy hunting
73 Marine biology
Invisibility cloaks
73 Astronomy
New moon
74 Hoax science
Get real!
Books and arts
75 Anne Frank’s diary
Dear Kitty
76 Churchill
The lion’s roar
77 New Orleans
Big Easy reading
78 Johnson
Bubble and squeak
80 Economic and financial
indicators
Statistics on 42 economies,
plus our monthly poll of
forecasters
Obituary
82 Alan Abel
One born every minute