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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon China’s covid failure Will the cap fit? CoD and chips The digital front The wounds of silence Letters to the editor The Chinese government exercises control through local busybodies, explains Lynette H. Ong The protests in China may change the way Xi Jinping runs the country, says Minxin Pei Zero options Crimean War Big Viktor is watching Angela Merkel’s faded glory Unreasonably blue So goes the blow United States, divided Europe Wear and care Few on pews Tory jarheads Here’s an idea Royal erosion Insulation nation If you don’t like it, there’s the door The conundrum of three-way nuclear deterrence No harm intended To the winners, the spoilers Bodies, bodies, bodies In vino veritas Star dreck Too poor to strike Numbers is just a book in the Bible Ranch of government Mine craft Brotherhood of bikers Oil be back The coming swing to the right When the chips are down Across the Strait, a lockdown protest Hail the chief Mongrel mobsters Pilgrim’s progress How the other half live Echoes of the past Solidarity, of a sort Testing the party Lessons from a protest Talking about it at last America’s best firms…and the rest Game on or game over? The hand on the tap Ins and outs The other gig economy Crude weapon Uncle Sham Laundry softener Vault face Fiscal feud PE-kaboo I’ll do things for you A nest of wipers Black hats, white hats, grey hats Ill winds Enter lecanemab An amphibious dinosaur from the Cretaceous The algorithm’s mercy In the doge house Art against war Home truths Rise of the cyborgs Heaven with the gates off Economic data, commodities and markets Margins matter Why has America’s army recruitment plummeted? Why are boys doing badly at school? An unlikely strongman Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)