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If you sense that America’s politics has become angrier in recent years you’re not wrong.
We report on new data
showing that irate expression has jumped, both on social media and on the floor of Congress.
Elsewhere, Iceland surprised the European Union, and perhaps itself, by voting “no” in a referendum on whether to reopen negotiations about joining the bloc.
We explain why
worries about fish trumped anxiety about geopolitics.
What to expect in the week ahead:
▸ India’s first-quarter GDP data will be published on Monday. Economists expect them to show robust growth of around 7.2% year on year. That would be down from the barnstorming 7.8% in the previous quarter but better than many predicted when the war in Iran began. The world’s sixth-largest economy is proving resilient, partly because the government has capped prices charged by state-owned refineries and subsidised fertiliser.
▸ Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive for 15 years, hands the reins to John Ternus on Tuesday.
Mr Ternus
has spent half his life at the tech giant; in 2020 he was put in charge of iPhones, Apple’s most important product. His first test comes on September 9th, when the company unveils its latest phones. Apple has not launched a genuinely novel device in years; Mr Ternus, a gizmo guy, may try to end that dry spell.
▸ The immigration ministers of Germany, Austria, Denmark, Greece and the Netherlands meet in Copenhagen on Friday to discuss sending some migrants to Uganda. In June the EU passed legislation allowing countries to set up “return hubs” in far-flung countries. Migrants would be sent there while arrangements are made to repatriate them.
A slew of recent measures
has reduced irregular migration sharply. | 
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