Adam Tooze argues in Foreign Policy that the economic growth infatuation with Asia is more buzz than substance as the world lurches towards 2030. Tooze illuminates the demographic, economic and geographical factors that, in his mind, set up Africa to have an unprecedented impact on the world stage over the coming century – whether we’re ready for it or not.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


