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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon China and covid-19: Is China winning? The oil industry: A view of the future Covid-19 lockdowns: Fumbling for the exit strategy Should dividends be cut?: Jam postponed Postal voting: Two myths Letters to the editor: On Africa, covid-19, Mount Everest, Dutch swear words, podiums, exacting Creating immunity to covid-19: So many possibilities, so little time Convalescent plasma and artificial antibodies: Survivors as saviours Coronavirus and inequality: Unequal protection Violence and the virus: Ceasefire, for now Revolution interrupted: Democrats in array Military recruitment: Social climbing Lexington: The paradox of the pandemic Mexico: Shoestring king Bello: The light that flickers Ethnic strife in Myanmar: Guerrillas with attitude Informal workers and covid-19: Get sick or go hungry Covid-19 in Japan: Déjà flu Politics in South Korea: Infectious enthusiasm Banyan: In hot water Global influence: Thanking big brother Chaguan: China’s self-censoring nationalists Public health: What South Africa learned from AIDS Remittances and Africa: Covid dries up a cash cow Gaming in the Middle East: Covideo heaven The war in Yemen: Looking for an exit Quackery in Iran: A bad time for bad medicine Spain: A house divided The coronabonds row: Dutch courage Poland’s election: Epidemocracy Wildlife encroaches in Italy: Rus in urbe Charlemagne: Unlucky millennials Covid-19: What went wrong? Farm labour: Your polytunnel needs you Care homes: Careless Small business: The bank manager will see you now Magazines: Glitz-krieg Newspapers and covid-19: Breaking: news Government debt: Printing money Brexit negotiations: Extension rebellion Bagehot: The establishment strikes back How to end lockdowns: Emergency exit Jobs at The Economist: We’re hiring Corporate fraud: Who’s lost their trunks? Dividends and buy-backs: Chop chop ByteDance: Unabashed Non-essential retailers: Fashion victims Bartleby: Lessons from the front line Schumpeter: Slumbering serpents The world after covid-19: By invitation: Mark Carney The recession in rich countries: Picking off the weak Earnings on Wall Street: Dispatch from the front China’s economy: Fighting with shadows Finance and geopolitics: Bucking the trend Buttonwood: A shrewd counterweight Free exchange: The cost of living Contact-tracing: A global microscope, made of phones Disease transmission: Not so guilty Climate change: Scorched earth Global health: WHO’s in trouble? Solitude and its consequences: Immunity from being alone Covid-19 and entertainment: Sealed without a kiss Tales of survival: Exodus and odyssey Demography: The big ask Lives of the plutocrats: The money tree Johnson: Locked and learning Home Entertainment: Listen to Bertrand Russell, the English Voltaire Home Entertainment: The joy of making your own tortellini Economic data, commodities and markets The internet and covid-19: Get used to it Hal Willner: Mr Music Man Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)