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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon American politics: One year on Markets and inflation: Bond traders stir Government in Britain: Are rules for losers? Climate change and investing: The uses and abuses of green finance Abiy’s abyss: Act now to avert carnage in Ethiopia Letters to the editor: On Dave Chappelle, Spain, lorry drivers, carbon taxes, trees, our NFT auction Social mobility in America: Stuck in place Italy: The Mario magic Portugal: The contraption crashes Global warming and food: Hot cuisine Georgia: Heavy vetting Germany’s Turks: From guest worker to citizen? Charlemagne: Noisy neighbours Political lobbying: Tory sleaze, again Judicial independence: Government v judges Climate summitry: COP26 flows over Smoking: Vape nation Monetary policy: Raising the roof Bagehot: Blue Leviathan Ethiopia’s civil war: A battle for the capital looms South Africa: Hegemon no more Protecting the Congo basin: Money for old trees Algeria, Morocco and Western Sahara: The disputed desert American competitiveness: The maths wars Off-year elections: Physics for politics The Supreme Court: Lawyers, guns and babies Guns and religion: No sympathy for the devil Medicine and identity: Portrait of a detransitioner Lexington: Glenn Youngkin and Ivy League populism Brazil: From hero to villain Latin American TV: 1001 episodes Bello: Spooked by Venezuela Pollution: Baby, it’s toxic outside Instagram and youth culture: Hot shots Bangladesh and India: Spilling over Japanese politics: Wishy-washy Banyan: Mine for the taking The Communist Party: Control the present, control the past Military strategy: An unpacific contest Forests and climate change: Up a tree Pricing power: Passing the buck American basketball and China: The audacity of hoops Newspapers: Paperchase Amazon in Germany: Strike season The new face of old tech: Reinvention as a service Bartleby: Why executives like the office Schumpeter: The Gorgon knot America’s economy: Inner strength Interest rates: Bond markets v central banks Emerging markets: Living the high life Payments in Africa: Turf wars Buttonwood: Schrödinger’s markets Free exchange: The greedy-jobs gap Greenhouse gases: Set in green concrete Green aviation: Liquid sunshine Unimals: Balls, sticks and the Baldwin effect Animal migration: Eel meet again Funerary rituals: Blood not so simple Nationalism and revolution: The day after the dream Women and philosophy: The moral of the story Nigerian fiction: Body blows Books and social media: Word of mouth Edvard Munch: Light in the darkness Indicators: Economic data, commodities and markets Inflation: The used-car conundrum Bernard Haitink: Music, not words Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)