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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The pandemic: Vaccinating the world Israel and the Palestinians: Stopping the cycle Supply shortages: The bottleneck economy British politics: The wrong sort of conservatism Corporate-tax dodging: End the contortions Letters to the editor: On Taiwan, Scotland, Spain, suicide, patents, workers, Dickens, the C-suite The covid-19 pandemic: Counting the dead Producing more vaccines: The insufficient miracle France: A revolution and a rematch Bulgaria: Battling Borisov Sweden: Green steel Pandemic tourism in Turkey: Where did everyone go? Welfare states: Protection racket Charlemagne: Whatever it took? The government: Winning the peace Voter identification: The end of innocence Political geography: The Chipping Norton reset Northern Ireland: Slaughter in Ballymurphy Scottish elections: Let attrition commence Second homes: Get out Pubs and jobs: The hangover Bagehot: Uneasy rider Israel and Palestine: The fire this time Saudi foreign policy: Prince Charming Lake Victoria: Finny business The camel trade: Cloak-and-finger deals Nigeria’s economy: Stuck in a rut New York’s mayoral race: Uncertainty and the city Hacking and ransoms: Post-Colonial studies Homelessness: The Row row Opioids: The other epidemic Evictions paused: Shelter in place Lexington: The kraken is unleashed Post-covid economies: A long way down Hunger in Brazil: An old scourge returns Vague addresses: Off the grid The pandemic in Asia: Next in line Indonesian inoculation: Join the (other) queue Tradition and the law: Endangered hunters Covid-19 in India: Let them eat dark chocolate The Korean peninsula: Silent sigh Banyan: Malé malaise Football: Own goal Winter Olympics: The puck stops here Chaguan: Landing ashore Truth commissions: The agony of silence The space business: Elon Musk’s other company Bartleby: Mothers of invention Harley-Davidson: Uneasy rider Lobbying in Europe: Making money and influencing people Musical plagiarism: Writ parade Pharmaceuticals and innovation: Less buck for the bang Schumpeter: Pay and the pandemic Inflation: Jump scare? Buttonwood: Oversold over here China’s census: Older and wiser David Swensen: The holly and the ivy Corporate tax: The big carve-up Free exchange: When the Inc runs Recycling: The metals in the car go round and round Electric motors: Hydrogen de-bonding Gender medicine: Second thoughts Botany: Charismatic megaflora Hypersonic flight: The rockets’ green glare Politics and fiction: The character arc of justice Thomas Becket at the British Museum: Murder in the cathedral Bitter pills: Patrick Radden Keefe traces the roots of America’s opioid epidemic Booty haul: When Napoleon stole a Venetian masterpiece Acid test: Rahul Raina’s debut novel is a rollicking urban adventure Economic data, commodities and markets Fertility: Parks and procreation T.S. Shanbhag: The bookseller of Bangalore Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)