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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Life after lockdowns: The 90% economy Covid-19 and the classroom: Open schools first Big tech and the crisis: West-coast shuffle State and local governments: Unsteady states Disease and laboratories: The origins of the virus Letters to the editor: On testing, stimulus, the three-day week, ancient Athens, coughing The post-covid economy: Not quite all there Debt in developing countries: Next in line Presidential politics: Election monitoring Military service and citizenship: Battling to be American Residential property: The house loses Food supplies: Slaughterhouse dive Distributed manufacturing: A multitude of drops Lexington: Conservatism in the crisis Brazil: A dangerous divorce Venezuelans in Colombia: The welcome mat frays Bello: The lockdown conundrum North Korea: Oh leader, where art thou? Employment in Japan: Shake-work scheme Garment factories in Bangladesh: Suffering from a stitch Banyan: Pious and infectious Sexism in Malaysia: When make-up is essential Curbing covid-19 in Asia: The legitimate use of farce Graduate unemployment: Spring freeze Endangered species: Tilting the scales Chaguan: Virus exceptionalism Zambia: In the pits Sudan: Technical solutions Africa: Leaders and misleaders Yemen’s war within a war: The south rises The war in Libya: A warlord in trouble Saudi Arabia: No more flogging Lockdowns and trust: Infectious doubt Germany: The explainer-in-chief Italy: In need of assistance Covid tech: Protocol politics Politics in Ukraine: Is the man from Georgia back? Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund: How not to hand over to your successor Charlemagne: Emmanuel and the three costumes Universities: Time to think small Horticulture: A nation of gardeners Local government: Sinking Scottish independence: Scarier alone? Tracking and tracing: And then there were 18,000 Death toll: Rivalling the Blitz British Airways: Grounded Northern Ireland and Brexit: Just how is this going to work? Bagehot: Blair’s back Closing schools: No more pencils, no more books The experience of Ebola: Lessons learned Covid-19 infections: Think of the children Chinese entrepreneurs: Flowerbeds of enterprise Bartleby: The road to hell Virtual AGMs: Low resolution German blue chips: Despondent DAX Schumpeter: The riddle of Samsung Bailing out small businesses: Averting nightmare on Main Street Bailing out large firms: Big bucks Melissa Dell: To good effect Local finances in America: Less than zero Buttonwood: Pulp fiction Free exchange: Mountain to climb Computing climate change: Model behaviour The origin of covid-19: Only connect Covid-19 and the immune system: Uncertainty’s principals Covid-19 and smoking: An unexpected ally Me time: All the lonely people Romek Marber: Order and peril Johnson: The purpose of classics Home Entertainment: Rereading “The Leopard” Home Entertainment: Ghosts of baseball’s past Economic data, commodities and markets Covid-19 and life expectancy: Before their time Joe Brown: Through crack and crag Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)