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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon War and farming: The food catastrophe Sweden, Finland and NATO: The meaning of membership Cryptocurrencies: Sink or swim Immigration: State of disarray Travel after covid-19: From asterisks to spiderwebs Letters: On abortion, Jaroslav Hasek, doctors, Celtic, staff meetings Finance and economics: Claudia Sahm on what is driving inflation in America Finance and economics: Angel Ubide expects inflation to subside if supply shocks fade Finance and economics: Jón Steinsson believes that a painless disinflation is no longer plausible The food crisis: After the pestilence, after the war… The war in Ukraine: Unblocking Odessa Ukraine: The relief of Kharkiv France’s new prime minister: First Borne Germany: Another blow for Mr Scholz Greece: Hemlock for hacks Charlemagne: Giving faces to “faceless Eurocrats” The future of transport: The road not taken The Northern Ireland protocol: Here we go again Police recruitment: The beat has changed The cost of living: Get with the program The NHS: Silent as the grave A gas price that is going down: Wholesale gas prices in Britain have collapsed The right to roam: Forgive us our trespasses Bagehot: UKSA! UKSA! UKSA! Benefits for immigrants: The welfare states Domestic terrorism: Sickening theory and lethal practice Supply chains: O’Hareport Pennsylvania: Keystone-cop politics Oregon’s sixth district: Ineffective altruism Abortion: Outrage and outliers Lexington: The quiet Ukraine consensus The African Development Bank: Too important to fail Free speech in Ethiopia: Gagged Lebanon: Shake-up and stasis Sandstorms: A harrowing haze Iran: Mahdi mania Colombia: The Medellín model Divination: She sells seer shells Bello: Distant neighbours Myanmar’s civil war (1): These new puritans Myanmar’s civil war (2): Pass the Kool-Aid Turkmenistan: Last chance salon Demography: NIMBYs v babies Banyan: Attributary state Human rights in Xinjiang: Nothing to see here Religious freedom: Cardinal Zen’s cardinal sin Pandemic measures: All eyes on Beijing Online censorship: Found in translation Chaguan: It’s all political The propaganda front: The Putin Show SoftBank: Hard landing Elon Musk and Twitter: Trick or tweet? Indian business: A new foundation Stockmarket listings: Where did the cash go? Retailing: Supermarket crash Bartleby: Making brainstorming better Schumpeter: Slow and unsteady The world economy: Recession watch China’s economy: When bad data are good Inflation in America: Powder keg Cryptocurrencies: Unstablecoin Climate finance: Carbon sinks Buttonwood: Is China uninvestible? Dodgy data: Half-measures Free exchange: Immaterial needs Carbon nanotechnology: Pouring graphene’s bright future Therapeutic art: Comic relief Mankind and other animals: Arrival of the interspecies Scoundrels of yore: Pleasure without principle Ecofiction: Back to earth Royalists and Roundheads: The dogs of war Johnson: Enter the dragon app Indicators: Economic data, commodities and markets Climate change: That non-sinking feeling Saotome Katsumoto: The forgotten fire Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)