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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Policing and race in America: The fire this time Hong Kong: Conduit’s end? Covid-19: The other three-quarters Inflation: Tomorrow’s problem Commercial space flight: Orbital liberties Letters to the editor: On public debt, Vitamin D, the BBC, clock dials, lists of three, globalisation How covid-19 kills: Assault and battery Inequality and the pandemic: Widening spread Spain: A more equal country Poverty in Italy: Hitting the poorest hardest France: Time for a reboot Germany: Social distancing and sex work Slovenia: Barbarians at the gates Turkey and covid-19: Strength in numbers The United Kingdom: One nation, under covid Hong Kong: A warm(ish) welcome Ethnicity and covid-19: Doubly unlucky Lifting lockdown: A risky reopening Religion: Your own personal Jesus Parliament: The mother of all queues Documenting the pandemic: How history is made Bagehot: The new victims Yemen and covid-19: The invisible outbreak Israel: Empty empires The Hirak: Streets with no rage (for now) Boko Haram: No rain, slow gains Women and politics in Uganda: Hell yeah, I’m a feminist Debt relief: Thanks, but no Criminal justice: Order above the law African-Americans: Slow progress Global leadership: Groping for the right grouping Fishing: Alaska welcomes hooligans Lexington: Far worse than Nixon Canada: Contenders for a cracked crown Colombia: Medellín’s medical marvel Bello: The empty skies Covid-19 in South Asia: Deadly tide Marriage in Japan: Knot happy Repressing dissent in Thailand: Voice of treason South Korea: Haunted by Gwangju Indonesian politics: Viral marketing Banyan: The beast from the east The Belt and Road Initiative: Break time Chaguan: Crossing blood lines Fake news: Return of the paranoid style Speech online: The moderator’s dilemma The sharing economy: What’s mine is yours Floating not drowning: IPOs stay afloat Video gaming: Command & reconquer Twitter and Facebook: A tale of two social networks IKEA: Part of the furniture Bartleby: Cultural challenge Schumpeter: Boffins v the bug Hong Kong’s future: Electrical storm America’s public pensions: Counting the cost Prudence in the pandemic: Americans saved a record chunk of their incomes in April Sustainable finance: Social climbing Buttonwood: The options gambit Women in the workforce: This time is different Free exchange: Land of the rising sum Human space flight: The shape of things to come Archaeology: Taking soundings in Teotihuacan Climate feedbacks: Fire down below Russian literature: Rapture on the battleground Morality: Hearts of gold Socially distanced art: The floor lines of beauty Home Entertainment: Hayao Miyazaki’s flights Home Entertainment: Rereading “Jane Eyre” Perspectives: Of covid and kin Economic data, markets and data Covid-19 and democracy: Out in the open George Floyd: The life pressed out Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)