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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The Pandemic: Closed The world economy: Fighting the slump Free speech: Stop deporting reporters Guyana: Petro power struggle Professional sports: The game’s the thing Letters to the editor: On coronavirus and business, central banks, Hong Kong, data The pandemic: The lockdown and the long haul The economic emergency: Experimental treatment Responding to covid-19: In sickness, not in health The 2020 population count: Census and sensibility The Democratic primary: Electoral distancing Families: Little gay house on the prairie The Bible museum: A load of old cobblers Lexington: Pandemic polarisation Eradicating coca: Burning leaves, spurning leavers Bello: Venezuela’s political quarantine Canada: A little lichen relief Covid-19 in India: The billion-person question Banyan: No island is an island Australia’s economy: Up, up, up and down The Maldives: The other contagion Making wagyu Japanese again: Sperm wail China and America: The blame game Imported infections: A frosty welcome Chaguan: This virus also kills dreams Separatism in Ethiopia: Abiy’s war HIV and the disabled: Double trouble The Democratic Republic of Congo: A crocodile-hunter’s tears Coping with covid-19: Prayer in a pandemic Israeli politics: Bibi and the virus Italy and covid-19: The race against time Spain: Sánchez’s big test Europe’s borders: Frontier theatre France: The virus and the vote North Macedonia: Deplinthing Alexander Russia: The new Soviet Union Charlemagne: Europe, more or less Government: Leviathan rising Theatreland: Curtains Trains: Bailing out the railways Panic buying: Supermarket sweep Old people: Leave granny alone Life under lockdown: Dispatches from the front room Brexit and covid-19: Crises collide Digital infrastructure: Stayin’ online Bagehot: The spirit of the Blitz School closures: Mid-term break Business and the pandemic: Covid carnage Air transport: Flight risk Manufacturing: My iron lung Bartleby: Embracing the suck Very golden oldies: Berkshire Hathaway has America Inc’s oldest board Schumpeter: Processing power The cash crisis: Down the drain Buttonwood: Capitulation The surging dollar: Multi-coloured swap shop Two versions of reality: Exchange-traded fundamentals Closing stock exchanges: The pits Free exchange: From V to victory The coronavirus pandemic: Test acts Scientific methods: Sentimental journey Palaeontology: Fowl play Music and politics: Ghetto blasters Muhammad bin Salman: The prince The play’s the thing: Brave new world Arresting new fiction: He said, she says Johnson: Talking to the world Economic and financial indicators Covid-19 and flights: Ending the nosedive Falafel: The throw of the dice Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)