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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon This week’s covers Scotland has been on a ten-year holiday from reality Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news Pakistan’s perma-crisis The AI boom has turbocharged Nvidia’s fortunes. Can it hold its position? Letters to the editor Dara Massicot believes that Russia faces twin personnel crises in its armed forces It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president Spain’s prime minister gambles on a snap general election Ukraine gets its F-16s Poland’s government may seek to bar opponents from politics Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland’s politics is suddenly in flux Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools Britain is falling behind in clinical trials of medicines How should Britain reform rape-trial laws? Can British seaweed farms bloom? Britain’s new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy America avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea Can downtown densification rescue Cleveland? House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden’s activities to Joe America’s states are pursuing their own foreign policies Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory Iran puts its nuclear programme beyond the reach of American bombs Business families in the Gulf need modern laws of inheritance What next for Sudan’s most notorious rebel leader, known as Hemedti? Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill is now law Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocrat Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business Who will be Taiwan’s next president? Narendra Modi is rebuilding New Delhi Imran Khan loses his battle with Pakistan’s army Japan’s hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants The strange tale of a prominent North Korean defector China’s young want to work. For the government New research helps explain why China’s low birth rates are stuck China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again The speech police are coming for social media Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush Chief executives cannot shut up about AI Dealmaking has slowed—except among dealmakers Go First’s insolvency tests India’s bankruptcy regime Is the luxury sector recession-proof? How to beat desk rage Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws A new wave of mass migration has begun The world’s oil-price benchmark is being radically reformed America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies Turkey’s bizarre economic experiment enters a new phase Why China’s government might struggle to revive its economy Investors go back into battle with rising interest rates What does the perfect carbon price look like? The future of fish farming is on land Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common around the Mediterranean Why legal writing is so awful There is more than one way to make green steel Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been subject to historical revisionism Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel follows lovers in crumbling East Germany Immigrants are changing Central Texas barbecue for the better Ramesses the Great was a superb self-promoter Aleksander Kulisiewicz preserved the music of the Nazi camps The comic opera of England What to read to understand imperialism and colonialism Economic data, commodities and markets Cheap vaccines could prevent millions of deaths from cervical cancer Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)