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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Government finances: After the disease, the debt Government under covid-19: A pandemic of power grabs Migrants and the virus: Essential workers Carmakers in trouble: Pimp the ride Climate change: An Earth Day in the life of a plague Letters to the editor: On wet markets, Thailand, abortion, covid-19, house names, management The world after covid-19: Bill Gates on how to fight future pandemics Covid-19 and public finances: Undercut The crisis in carmaking: From 60 to zero Better batteries: Charging up for a long ride Reopening America: Stir craziness Environmental regulation: Mercury rising Biodefence: Spore wars The Hua-war: Some body to hold Catholic voters: Cathechismic Lexington: The limits of energy independence Argentina: The Peronist and the pandemic Bolivian wine: High varietals Bello: Cuba on the edge When the epidemic is over: A process of elimination Moonshine in Sri Lanka: Worth a shot Ignoring covid-19 in Central Asia: What pandemic? India on lockdown: Impossible sums Banyan: Fin pickings Politics in Hong Kong: The long arm of Beijing Table manners: Safer ways to use chopsticks Chaguan: When children say #MeToo The Gulf’s outbreak: Covid in the camps Israeli politics: Bibi wins again Food distribution: The race to feed Africa Abba Kyari: The parable of the bag of cash Germany and covid-19: Top of the class? A French conundrum: Rush-hour running Turkey, refugees and covid-19: A crisis within a crisis NATO in Europe: Yankees go home Charlemagne: Testing the faith The BBC’s future: The next episode Politics: Jolly difficult The price isn’t right: Not just a problem for economists Covid communities: Neighbourhood watch Food and the economy: Pret A Ouvrir Freemasons: Out of the shadows Bagehot: Back to abnormal Covid-19 and autocracy: Protection racket Corporate innovation: Crucible of creative disruption Facebook in India: Jiostrategic Television: Medium and message The data economy: Tear down this wall Bartleby: Play’s the thing Schumpeter: Minting it Hedge funds: Back in the game Risk parity: Under the weather Commodities: Tick tock Financial technology: Virtually money Buttonwood: Hard money Free exchange: Tough love Tackling climate change: The challenge without precedent Covid-19: Tests of reason Pandemics past and present: A lesson from history The solace of Tolstoy: Unhappy in the same way Power in Russia: Made men Coffee and capitalism: The big grind Dutch fiction: Cold comfort farm Home Entertainment: “The Shining” is perfect quarantine viewing Home Entertainment: Try painting in watercolours Perspectives: How previous contagions changed cities Economic data, commodities and markets Vulnerability to covid-19: Dixie in the crosshairs John Conway: The game of maths Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)