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Winners and losers: World, here we come

The biggest beneficiaries from the retail renaissance will be large international banks(0)

The endangered public company: The big engine that couldn’t

Public companies have had a difficult decade, battered by scandals, tied up by regulations and challenged by alternative corporate forms(52)

Bagehot: The nightmare scenario

Britain’s problems are not a bad dream from which voters can wake(14)

Migrant children: Good things and small packages

Britain’s undocumented children are caught between liberal courts and squeezed local budgets(8)

Royal portraiture: The queen is dead

The real subject of a royal portrait is never the monarch(26)

Remembering Peter David: What he wrote

A selection of Peter David's writing(21)

"Writing Britain" at the British Library: England, my England

The land as muse(4)

This week in print: Central American gangs, Argentine state-owned companies, the quinoa trade and Cuban ballet

A roundup of the week's Americas stories(0)

Danza Contemporánea de Cuba: More than mambo

A jubilant Cuban dance company returns to Britain(1)

The Cameron government: Crisis? What crisis?

The West’s most radical government is in trouble. It needs to rediscover its boldness and honesty(68)

Guernsey and Jersey: The ebbing tide

Two offshore financial centres try to figure out their future(4)

Two years of the coalition: I never promised you a rose garden

Two big successes, two big failures, and much of the rest hanging in the balance: the government’s reforms have a patchy record(6)

The labour market: Idle hands

The puzzle of why unemployment is not higher(11)

Wonga: Loan ranger

An online consumer lender spreads into small-business loans, and beyond(5)

Remembering Adam Yauch: Fighting the beast within

It is not nice to speak ill of the recently deceased, but when I first met Adam Yauch, also known as MCA from the hip-hop band the Beastie Boys, I was not too impressed.(16)