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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon A business survival guide to the economic slump: The business of survival The euro area: Cut to the chase Voting in a pandemic: Wisconsin’s warning The IMF: Break the glass America v China: Huawei and 5Geopolitics Letters to the editor: On covid-19, China, digital payments, cats, Sinn Fein, Jamie Dimon, Tahiti Covid and the company: Sinking, swimming and surfing Manufacturing at a distance: Still made in China Ructions in the oil market: Upside down White House v virus: Bigger than Trump Race and covid-19: Woes compounded The intelligence community: The spooky state The navy: Seasickness Living spaces: Please shower on entry Prison gerrymandering: Ghost constituents Lexington: A river runs through it Latin America and covid-19: Bracing for a battering A battle in the Caribbean: Bolivarian farce Bello: A president who is isolating himself Singapore and covid-19: No way out Justice in Uzbekistan: Blind obedience Taiwan on alert: Strait and harrow Sexism in Japan: Heels at high water Criminal justice in Australia: Judges v jury Politics in South Korea: Voting amid the virus Banyan: Locked out of the bolthole Traditional medicine: Fighting it the Chinese way Beekeeping: The honey trap Chaguan: A window almost closed Iraq: Dark times ahead Covid couture: Lebanon gets comfortable Fiscal ill-health: Debt and disease Kenya: Tall tales of the city African agriculture: Dummy farms Europe’s response to covid-19: Paying for it Greece’s vulnerable economy: A terrible toll on tourism Turkey and covid-19: Perfumed guardian Russia: The invisible leader Charlemagne: Zoom diplomacy Covid-19: Patient number one Labour’s new leader: Socialism with a barrister’s face Lockdown compliance: For queen and country Misinformation and mobile networks: Dodgy signal The other sick: Stay home, protect the NHS, unless... Funerals: Ashes to ashes The economy: Over the cliff edge Bagehot: Missing Boris Religious divides: Living on a prayer Virtual worship: Our Father, who art in cyberspace South Korea: Loosening up New economic models: Another way to work Men and women: Battle lines Beyond K-pop: K-pop’s intellectuals Politics: A flickering legacy North Korea: A god-king with nukes The future: The limits of loosening Telecommunications: 5Geopolitics Bartleby: It’s cold outside Technology: SoftBank and sensibility Online collaboration: Zoom in, Zoom out Schumpeter: Strategic pile-up Banks and the economic emergency: This time we’re different Price gouging: Signal failure Buttonwood: Stacked and whacked Joe Stiglitz and the IMF: Pilgrimage to the gamma quadrant Taken ill: The labour market’s turn for the worse Free exchange: Special delivery Covid-19 (1): Maskarade Covid-19 (2): Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence Art and injustice: Vengeance is hers London fiction: Through the trapdoor Postcards from doomsday: This is the end Do the right thing: Walking on by Soviet dissidents: Keeping the flame alight Trollope’s world: The way to live now TV drama: A Flemish Robin Hood Economic data, commodities and markets Measuring covid-19: Footprints of the invisible enemy Catherine Hamlin: Faith healing Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)