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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Free speech: Who controls the conversation? Brexit: Seal the deal Some lessons from Microsoft: Blue-sky thinking Financial markets: Young, but not dumb Illegal fishing: Monsters of the deep On the Uyghurs, Venus, Catholic voters, Zoom meetings: Letters to the editor Social media and free speech: The great clean-up Microsoft: After the reboot Covid-19 in Europe: A patchwork of red, yellow and green Swedish defence: Less neutral, more beefy Georgia: Misha’s return? France: The sacred right to offend Charlemagne: A powerful yet puny parliament London as a financial centre: Brex and the City Elected mayors: Our friends in the north Social care: Big old problem Brexit and data firms: Inadequate Bagehot: What Biden would mean for Boris Egypt: No contest America and the Middle East: Waiting game Tanzania’s elections: The bulldozer rumbles on Conservation in Africa: Elephants’ graveyard no more Police violence in Nigeria: The young have had enough Election uncertainties: The known unknowns Donald Trump’s record: Pumped up Trade: Tariff man Mining for votes in Montana: Gold in them hills Museum funding: Going, going, gone The Equality Act: Liberalism and its contradictions Lexington: The blue wave Chile: In need of a new edifice Bello: Don’t mess up the miracle Disinformation in Myanmar: Anti-social network North Korea and the world: Not-so-splendid isolation New Zealand’s election: Labour day Drugs in India: Weed killers Banyan: A feverish mood Opinion polls: The 1.4bn-people question Economic rebound: A big splash Chaguan: Be China’s friend, or else Felonious fishing: The outlaw sea Italian business: How the leopard lost its spots Technology and competition: Search query Utilities: What next Bartleby: Fighting spirit Schumpeter: Free the data serfs! Millennials and finance: The generation game The World Trade Organisation: The home straight Lael Brainard: Top contender Emerging markets: The rule-makers Price gouging: Disaster profiteering Buttonwood: A new career in a new town Free exchange: Graduates of the world, unite! We’re hiring: Wanted: a new writer to cover finance Controlling the pandemic: When doctors disagree Autonomous vehicles: Look, no hands! Space exploration: Close encounters of the sampling kind Ecology: Time to unwire Internal exile: Worlds of their own American fiction: Made for you and me The Spanish civil war: ¡No pasarán! North Korean architecture: Despot decor Economic data, commodities and markets Voting in America: Mailing it in Samuel Paty: Liberty’s foot-soldier Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)