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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Macroeconomics: Free money Collective debt: Europe pulls together Regional development: Revive, then thrive Tanzania: You say bullish, I say... Space exploration: Tread softly Letters to the editor: On Hong Kong, short-sellers, the Supreme Court, horse jumping, “The Prisoner”, medical terms, breadmaking A new era of economics: Starting over again Europe’s economy: A big fiscal deal The Franco-German relationship: Back on the tandem Covid-19 in slaughterhouses: Germany’s wurst jobs Greek ruins: Attic views Bulgarian protests: Bullies on a beach Spain’s monarchy: A tarnished crown Charlemagne: Chekhov’s treaty Russian interference in politics: See no evil Labour’s new management: Man overboard! Demography: Turning Japanese Travelling people: Gypsy lives matter Life on furlough: Hold on Housing market: A fragile boom Brexit and fish: On the menu Tanzania: A Potemkin economy? Uganda’s coming elections: Power unmasked Israel and covid-19: Mission unaccomplished Illegal migration: No passport required Racism in the Middle East: Maids for sale Congress and covid-19: Spot trades Work and incentives: One-handed economics Easing lockdowns and covid-19: The geometry of the pandemic Police reform: Now for the hard part Lexington: Trouble in Trumplandia Migration and Mexico: Youth departs The Caribbean: Welcome Zoomers Bello: The Inca trail leads to populism Caste in India: No escape The Philippine economy: A milder infection Covid-19 in Central Asia: Dust-busters Shipping in Japan: Sailing without sailors Banyan: South China scene Miscarriages of justice: Righting wrongs Wild mushrooms: The champignon champions Chaguan: Lessons from a summer hit Care homes: No place like home The Midwest: An outsized punch Cities: The urban prairie Race and the city: Separate, downtrodden Industry: America’s Mittelstand Universities: From rustbelt to brainbelt Politics: America’s divided middle Nature’s metropolis: Don’t be the next Cahokia TikTok: Sixty seconds of fame Information technology: In need of a software update Bartleby: Pandemic veterans Corporate profits: Seeing is disbelieving Mergers and acquisitions: Wakey, wakey Vaping: Puff piece Schumpeter: The wannabe Alibaba Shadow banking: Putting the capital into capitalism Metals: Shining brightly Much Ant-icipated: Ant Group goes to market Digital currencies: Bips and bytes Buttonwood: Snake in the grass Free exchange: Real-time danger Astrobiology: Life on Mars: the search continues Covid-19: The bat signal Inside Tibet: Fear and loathing on the plateau Bullfighting: The cape and the masks Rock’n’roll fiction: The band played on Home Entertainment: There’s always a catch Johnson: The shadowland Economic data, commodities and markets Covid-19 and football: Home comforts John Lewis: A country’s conscience Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)