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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The pandemic in Europe: What has gone wrong? Trade: Message in a bottleneck Israel: Breaking the stalemate Methane leaks: Put a plug in it The IMF and the pandemic: Special drawing wrongs Letters to the editor: On the filibuster, UN peacekeepers, climate change, covid-19, cats Europe and covid: The lack of needles and the damage done Encouraging the economy: Down to the wire France: Tanks again Serbia: Vial stuff Germany and covid-19: Who’s in charge? Latvian poetry: Folk histories in four lines Charlemagne: Netflix Europa The Red Wall reconsidered: Barratt Britain Economic growth: Beating expectations Schools and sexual abuse: Girls aloud Scotland: When separatists separate The City: Cold dinner Christianity: God the rock star Bagehot: What’s to become of them? Israel: Too many kingmakers Free speech: Boarding up the clubhouse Egypt: Always going big Tanzania: Hoping for change Poaching: Unhappy hunting grounds Voting rights: Not so peachy Vaccination nation: Winning the upper-arms race Derek Chauvin: The trial begins Governors in trouble (1): Gavin Newsom: The recall brawl Governors in trouble (2): Andrew Cuomo: Crisis in Cuomolot Ghost kitchens: Cooking up a business model Juvenile criminal-justice: Locked up for life Lexington: Bridges to somewhere Central America’s elite: Blood and money Political dynasties in Nicaragua: Chamorro tomorrow? Argentina’s debt deal: It takes two to disentangle Japan and America: BFFs once more Buddhism in Myanmar: Beggars, but choosers Religion in Malaysia: In the name of God Politics in South Korea: Masters of disillusion Banyan: Talking the generals down Sinifying Christianity: Clearing out the foreign Coronavirus origins: Anywhere but here Chaguan: China sees its moment Vaccines: Spreading the needle Commercial decoupling: Swept up in a storm Commercial property: WeSurvive Riding Hon Hai: Hon Hai, Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler, is eyeing cars American newspapers: Who wants to be a press baron? Bartleby: Their finest hours Urban transport: Flying taxis take off at last Schumpeter: Poker chips The Archegos affair: Margin call of the wild The IMF: Performance anxiety China’s lending: Neither predator nor pal The scramble for commodities (1): Mission critical The scramble for commodities (2): From the red earth Buttonwood: The frog chorus Free exchange: The underachiever Global warming: The other greenhouse gas Art and conquest: The spoils of war The Peruvian Amazon: The wood from the trees Writers’ lives: The human stained Haunted fiction: Daze of the dead Contemporary art: Cabin fever Economic data, commodities and markets Car crashes: A dark conundrum Steven Spurrier: An Englishman in Paris Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)