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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The pandemic: How well will vaccines work? The world economy: Inflategate Human rights: How to talk about Xinjiang Reducing child poverty: An end to exceptionalism Life, the universe and everything: Alien dreams On Scotland, GameStop, markets, innovation, primaries, baseball, Rizlas: Letters to the editor Vaccine efficacy: Obstacle course Vaccine hesitancy: Broken arrow Astrobiology: Come out, come out, wherever you are! Education and covid-19: A tale of two colleges France: The president’s dilemma Turkey: Lesbian, gay, bi and terrorist? Pets and covid-19: Canine crushes Italian politics: No time for foot-Draghing Charlemagne: They told you so National Health Service: Hands on Rule-breaking: Going underground Sino-British relations: No longer glistening Exporting vaccine: Good global citizens Business and the economy: A firm footing Travel restrictions: Grounded Internal borders: No place like home Bagehot: The price of acceptance America and the Middle East: New sheriff in town Libya: Fourth time lucky The Horn of Africa: Adding to the chaos Congolese politics: The president pounces Kenya’s rose-tinted spectacle: Flower power Congress: Swing voters Social media and anti-vaxxers: Likes and protein spikes Election administration: Count-22 Presidential libraries: The shrining Oregon’s drugs policy: Trail blazers America and China: Genocide aside Lexington: Speak easy Cuba and Venezuela: Practically perfect Colombia: Activists amid anarchy Bello: Ecuador’s politics of the negative The Tokyo Olympics: Olympic gory Protests in Myanmar: Don’t putsch me Banyan: Cool it or blow? Bangladesh’s army: Wallets at the ready Noise complaints in South Korea: Hell is other people Geopolitics in the Pacific: Palm-fringed fury Repression in Tibet: Accept these gifts, or else Online debate: Suddenly, space for free-thinkers Chaguan: Working together, but in parallel Freedom of speech: Inconvenient truths The future of travel: The age of the wheelie-bag The airline industry: No heads in the clouds The environmental damage: Emission days Business travel: Video-conferencing rules Corporate jets: High flyers Testing and vaccines: Well travelled Tourism: The holiday only just began The future: Faster, higher, longer Sources and acknowledgments Corporate earnings: Harbingers of boom Unions v big tech: Labour coders Privatisations in India: Flogging the family lead Anglo-German business ties: From bad to wurst Bartleby: Diary of a plague year Schumpeter: Alpha pipers Emerging economies: Some pleasant fiscal arithmetic Commodities: Twin peaks Picking up pace: Inflation will rise in the coming months Bank bosses: Fresh blood Buttonwood: Crossbar challenge Trade policy in America: Rinse and repeat Free exchange: Targeting practice The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Both ends against the middle Oncology: Precisely! Sustainable construction: Urban growth Silicon chats: Conversational computers have come a long way Scientists and aliens: Black-sky thinking Robert Maxwell: A made-up life Caste and gender in India: Death traps Johnson: At a loss for words Covid-19 vaccines: Jabs and jab-nots Paul Crutzen: Seer of the Anthropocene Economic data, commodities and markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)