The Economist's Caitlyn Talbot tries to find a new island in the Thames. She walks along the shore of Hammersmith and stands on one at low tide. But she is left feeling grossed out by the mass of smelly wet-wipes that surround her.
The petrostates of the Gulf are modernising their economies, growing more tolerant and liberalising their social contracts as they prepare for a world run on fewer hydrocarbons—but who will be left behind? A Chinese maker of electric vehicles prepares to steal a march on Tesla. And a look at Britain’s newest islands reveals they are made of wet wipes.