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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Universities: The absent student Lebanon: No way to run a country Tech wars: Trumpian TikTok Vaccine economics: A bigger dose Gay rights: The world comes out The dismal yet flexible science: When the facts change Letters to the editor: On reopening schools, oil, French accents, Amazon, sports teams Covid-19 and college: Uncanny University Racism in Europe: See no evil Open again: Genoa bridge reopens Turkey: Sultan of censorship Covid-19 in the Balkans: Not as stated Charlemagne: Strandkörbe in place of sangria Spain: The signal turns to red Scottish independence: Is Caledonia Catalonia? Covid-19 in Scotland: Independence fever Food and trade: A pig of a problem Planning reform: Weak foundations Masks and culture: Made in the USA John Hume, 1937-2020: A dove over Derry Bagehot: The smell of rot Lebanon: City in ruins Mali: Fear and loathing in the Sahel Prohibition in a pandemic: Tea-total The pandemic in Africa: One million and not counting Electing a president: Jarring The postal service: Law of the letter Hyperloops: Pipes of fancy DC history: Without representation Baseball returns: Strike two Taxing and spending: From unthinkable to universal Lexington: Channel-hopping Argentina: Fighting on fewer fronts Guyana and Suriname: Oil futures Bello: Beyond the troika of tyranny Hindu nationalism: India shrining Australia and covid-19: Borderline cases Corruption in Uzbekistan: Weirs and recriminations Personal freedom in Thailand: Cold cuts Banyan: Trojan democrat Entertainment: Heady Hunan The civil code: Thirty more days of hell Coming out: Queer, there and everywhere Corporate America: The trouble with TINA Stockmarket indices: Inclusive growth Semiconductors: Worth an arm and a leg Microsoft and TikTok: Unproductivity puzzle European business: Sverige AB v Deutschland AG Bartleby: Called to account Schumpeter: Dangerous curves ahead Vaccine economics: More hard questions Chinese finance: A dynamic duopoly Banks’ earnings: Dud light Pre-doctoral programmes: Selection effects The IMF and the World Bank: Abandoning hope Free exchange: Change for the dollar A healthy dose of competition: From hospitality to hipsterism Artificial intelligence: Bit-lit Covid-19 testing: Dive in Entomology: Parasites under pressure Cookery: A good grilling Museums and restitution: Legacies of violence Johnson: The Greatest Phrases! Climate change: A glacier’s pace New American fiction: The girl next door Home Entertainment: In the woodshed Economic data, commodities and markets Life in the time of corona: 90% economy, 120% gastronomy Olivia de Havilland: The ingénue who roared Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)