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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The green boom: Bunged up The G7 summit: Inoculation, inoculation, inoculation Latin America: Peru in peril Corporate tax: A new architecture Dementia research: False positive Letters to the editor: On Israel and Palestine, the MOVE, European startups, evictions, Argentina, Yuan Longping, Chinese Conditions for green growth: Missing ingredients NATO: Summit season Naval power: Found at sea Sex and gender: Trans-national Narcotics in Europe: Party lines Italy and climate change: How green is my Draghi? Charlemagne: The many faces of Sebastian Kurz The job market: Something to celebrate Rural life: Carry on glamping Sterling assets: Gilt-y pleasure Northern Ireland: Green gold Youth justice: Chained to the desk Politics: Tory trouble? Climate change: Dirty pretty things Bagehot: Geordie Tory Iranian politics: The rise of Raisi Morocco: Pottery in pieces Migration: Go west, habibi Social media in Nigeria: Do not rinse and retweet Mauritania: Turning over a new leaf Facing famine in Tigray: Hunger as a weapon Literacy: The reading wars Immigration enforcement: Lowering the bar Portland: Plaid shirts and plywood Hispanics and QAnon: Conspiracy as a second language College life: Dorm norms Lexington: Sinema’s technicolour moderation Peru: The man with the straw hat Mexico’s elections: Clipped wings Nicaragua’s opposition: Democratic deficit CoronaVac chronicles: Now for some good news Afghanistan after America: 1989 and all that Trouble in Sri Lanka: Push the boat out The pandemic in India: Multiply by six Vaccine lotteries in the Philippines: Have a cow, man Banyan: Quad wrangle The legal system: Who watches the watchmen? Museums: Build big, show little Chaguan: Foreigners inside the Great Wall The globalisation of politics: What’s the Japanese for QAnon? Inflation in America Inc: Less for more Supersonic passenger jets: Boom time? Medical technology: Booster shot The return of the mega-LBO: Dealing with abundance Digital markets: New rules of the road Bartleby: Working hard for the money Schumpeter: Gadflies in the boardroom Asset management: Chasing a pot of gold Inflation: Paid in China Commercial property: Vacancies in the Village Cryptocurrencies: Beating bitcoin Buttonwood: Going Dutch Free exchange: Finding the perfect match Alzheimer’s disease: Faint hopes Nuclear power: Atoms for greenery Wildlife conservation: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket Mass extinctions: Vanishing act Space cadets: Jeff Bezos’s flight of fancy Quantum engineering: Cool thinking The future of theatre: The turning world Art and activism: A place in the country Guns and race: Double standard Tech fiction: Paradise lost The trouble with history: Missing pieces Economic data, commodities and markets American politics: House of unrepresentatives Ganga Stone: Tales of love and death Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)