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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Labour markets: Riding high Jordan: Battle royal America and climate change: At last, a serious effort House prices: Don’t stop me now Design bias: Working in the dark Letters to the editor: On China, floating boats, Bangladesh, Dutch politics, regulations, England The Kurds: Down but not out Europe’s public broadcasters: The people’s voice Russia: House of the dead Bulgaria’s election: Bye-bye Boyko? Spain: Yes, Basques are different Charlemagne: Thinking the unthinkable Covid-19: Opening shots Pubs: Raising the bar Regional mayors: Men about town Commercial banking: Par for the course Northern Ireland: Brexit spills onto the streets Higher education: Smart moves Bagehot: The power of perkiness Jordan: Family feud Getting into Iraq: The doors are opening Egyptian entertainment: Only good cops, please Kenyan coffee: They’ve woken up and smelt it Education in Africa: Covid-19 spurs catch-up classes Benin and Chad: Getting too much alike, alas The economic recovery: Charging ahead Business and Georgia’s voting-rights law: Political baseball Climate policy: A long and bumpy road ahead Corporate taxes: Counting trillions Women and the draft: Gender war College admissions: No SATisfACTion Urban gardening: The Green Apple Housing in the West: Growing pains Communist pharma: Revolutionary drugs Bello: The strains in a politicised army Mexico’s economy: A tight-fisted socialist Covid-19 in South Asia: Indian brink Covid-19 in Bhutan: One-week wonder The South China Sea: Reef madness Haikus and climate/: As the seasons defy norms/ Politics in Thailand: Strength without numbers Pakistan’s armed forces: If you can’t beat them, obey them Banyan: Bubble trouble Left-behind children: In grandpa’s charge Chaguan: The Middle East quagmire Working online: Virtual insanity The future of work: Labour gains The shock: Crash landing Essential workers: The truly disadvantaged Working from home: From desktop to laptop Automation: Boy cries wolf Government policy: Servants of the people Flexicurity: How the Danes do it How to think about work: The grass is always greener Sources and acknowledgments Technology in China: An uncertain new path Bartleby: Shallow impact Social media: Hype club Corporate buccaneers: Seize and insist The future of drugmaking: Reformulated Schumpeter: Unbundling sport Global property: The race for space On the mend: The IMF marks up the global recovery Corporate taxes: Setting a floor Cryptocurrencies: Squaring the coin Bitcoin: The dirty truth China’s stockmarket: A new tack Robert Mundell: Floating ideas Free exchange: Our world, not in data Race and sex bias in medicine: Fatal truths Covid-19 vaccines: Sorting signal from noise Domestic heating: A new use for microwaves Particle physics: Model misbehaviour Art and belonging: The girl with the blue ribbon Les slammeurs: Rhyme for your life Egyptian fiction: A general in his labyrinth Alfred Hitchcock: Dial him for murder Johnson: Tough stuff Economic data, commodities and markets House prices: Approaching the ceiling Larry McMurtry: Paperback rider Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)