Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday,

we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Dubai is a striking place,

a steel and glass oasis, a playground of the wealthy.

But a lot of the money that sloshes through isn't the cleanest.

That will have to change if the city wants to keep its position as a global financial hub.

And lockdowns shuffled lots of habits.

In Britain, one trend became clear.

People read more books.

And they tended to read classics, big, weighty ones.

It seems the habit has stuck, that is affecting the new titles jostling for shelf space.

First up, though.

Some 9 million children in England are going back to school this week.

Among them is 11-year-old Joseph.

He's moving from primary to secondary school, a daunting event in itself, let alone during a pandemic.

I'm really nervous. It's like going from being the biggest kids to being the smallest kids

again.

Like all school children, Joseph will also have to deal with newly imposed safety rules, including one-way systems and year group bubbles.

On the bus, we're going to have to wear masks because it's quite closely packed.

If you're having school dinners, you have to take your lunch and go and sit either outside or in a classroom

because they're not using the school hall.

Parents in England face fines if they don't send their children to school.

Boris Johnson, Britain's Prime Minister, described it as a moral duty.

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