It won't surprise any readers to know that the news in this edition is dominated by events in the Arab world - Egypt, and beyond. Our front page story looks at how Egyptian thoughts are turning away from direct politics to the issues behind the politics, particularly low wages and the price of bread.
Looking back, Simon Tisdall takes the long view over the near thirty-year regime of Hosni Mubarak, and we visit his birthplace, Kafr El-Meselha, where the mood was far from euphoric.
Wheat is also a big issue now in China, with a severe scarcity of winter precipitation having led to fears already about the crop in the breadbasket provinces of Henan, Anhui and Hunan.
Away from the news agenda, on the comment pages Will Hutton asks one of the big questions: is the world actually stagnating? He suggests that despite all of the IT and social networking developments of late, "the world of the early 2010s is recognisably the same as the early 1960s". True innovation has almost halted, he suggests.
But if you need to be cheered up after that, you might find pleasure in an exploration of the cultural life of whales, in the gloriously lit work of a Russian architectural pioneer (Konstantin Melnikov), or in a new museum in Paris (the private Pinacothèque). And the news, from the review of Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite, that there's no reliable record of anyone being killed by a meteorite. (Although one dog may have been a victim.)
I hope that you enjoy this week's edition.
Quote of the week: "We have seen what happened with the whaling issue, and don't want attention." A resident of Kesennuma, a Japanese town that relies on the shark fin trade.
Fact of the week: Nearly half of Yemen's 23 million people are under 15; 70% are under 25. Youth unemployment is over 50%.
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