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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Bright side of the moonshots: Science after the pandemic Emerging markets: Unanchored by Ankara Online commerce: Fintech comes to America, at last Bangladesh at 50: Mid-life crisis Brain injuries: Knocked out and locked up Letters to the editor: On nuclear power, Namibia, Uber, jury trials, beer, Bob Dylan Nucleic-acid medicine: A new phaRNAcopoeia Turkey: Erdogan’s own goal Vaccine exports: To have and to hold Italy: Of property rights and dead popes Spanish politics: The Madrid breakwater Charlemagne: The odd couple Britain and the European Union: Cross-channel conflict Asylum: Tiers for fears Defence cuts: Power rangers Scottish politics: Defying gravity Scottish independence: Madame Ecosse Employment: To be young was very hell Firefighting: No smoke, no fire Bagehot: Dizzy rascal The great Rwanda debate: Paragon or prison? The war in Yemen: Smoke and no ceasefire Iran and Iraq: Trouble with the neighbours See you again in August: Israel’s election has not broken the deadlock Violence in America: A modern murder mystery State of the unions: The battle of Bessemer Jobless data: Wild claims Patronage games: Situations vacant Fashion police: A coded message Drought in the West: Let it snow Lexington: The God-shaped hole Covid-19 in Brazil: Variants on a theme of disaster Peru’s election: And then there were lots The Squamish Nation: It was their backyard first Bello: An unhappy 30th birthday Bangladesh turns 50: From rags to stitches Reinventing rural South Korea: Purple pose Politics in Cambodia: Stack ’em high Chinese-Indians: The Kolkata clan India’s ruling party: Downgrading Delhi Banyan: Gratitude-resistant strains The Olympics: Winter of discontent Weather modification: No silver lining Chaguan: Still a man’s world Brain injuries and crime: Banged up A year of learning dangerously: The great reveal Testing and tracing: Situational awareness Treatments: Finding what works Vaccination: Like nothing that has happened before Tracking evolution: Know your enemy Forecasting: All in the blood Smoother sailing: A thing of brightness Acknowledgments and further reading Manufacturing in America: Firing on all cylinders A Suez crisis: Chokehold Entertainment: Billing, billing A lean year: Saudi Aramco’s profits decline—but not the dividend German-Russian business: The last bridge Bartleby: The great divide The ultra-rich: A plutocratic makeover Schumpeter: Herbie goes electric Inflation expectations: A different kind of fluke Climate finance: It is not so easy being green Asian economies: Power in reserves German capital markets: A new master for the watchdog Digital payments: Scaling the peak Buttonwood: Jay-talking Free exchange: Just the few of us Aerial warfare: Blue-sky thinking Life, the universe and everything: Beauty spots Rwanda and its leader: Behind the mask A history of constitutions: The writes of man Lives of the gangsters: King of the desert Myanmar’s secrets: Shards of light Johnson: The memory hole Economic data, commodities and markets Film and racism: A tarnished silver screen Nawal El-Saadawi: The uses of anger Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)