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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon Getting the job done Into the Carolean era The perils of wishful thinking House on fire Getting away with murder On big tech in the EU, the Soviet Union, museums, farming, planning A.N. Wilson on the art of Queen Elizabeth II’s communication Chasing the bear away Setting sun Strife on the right Injudicious Macron’s gamble A very political canal Opening the door Something in the ether Neighbourly relations What sort of king will Charles be? The end of an era Fewer children, fewer coalminers, less cabbage Realms and republics Before politics paused What would Walter say? America Inc Will the polls misfire again? California goes universal Bucking modernity Looking beyond GDP The other MAGA Hillbilly effigy Steal it, burn it, lose it The ones who sweep Going global A tale of two scarcities I don’t Poilievre the pugilist Hugs with a thug Wake-up call Sweet success General chaos A changed climate Heirs aberrant Next-generation thinking Change the channel They will take blood Forbidden love story China will not ditch Russia, for now How to stop the killing Packing heat American exceptionalism Detective games The Baltimore effect Refund the police? Interruption games Stopping the spiral Sources and acknowledgments The world’s biggest bet on India Morgenthau’s revenge Your inner dawdler Bitter tweet A rash of orders The borderless trustbuster Groaning Running on empty The LIBOR of energy? Sexist squid The Brady bunch Core of the matter Now, now, now The new economics of fertility Rumbles from the deep Peer pressure Instrumental Hide and seek Lights on the magic Italy’s big lie Promising the moon People power The pill machine Fear in a handful of dust Economic data, commodities and markets Floodgates opened Do Russia’s military setbacks increase the risk of nuclear conflict? Why Azerbaijan and Armenia are fighting again The weight of duty Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)