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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The Chinese Communist Party: Still going strong The Fed and markets: New horizons Schools and covid-19: Must try harder Election reform: Radically reasonable The African genome project: Know thyself On Alzheimer’s disease, crime, art, competition, Vanuatu, Israel, cows: Letters to the editor Education after covid-19: Catching up is hard to do French regional elections: Another slap in the face Swedish politics: The nine lives of Lofven Spain: Pardoning the separatists Turkey: Muck in Marmara Russia: Crimea and punishment Charlemagne: Belgitude: the art of Belgian zen Procurement: How to spend it Politics in Northern Ireland: A Unionist Pootsch Electoral politics: West Yorkshire Bank Managing waterways: A midsummer night’s stream Pensions: Triple trouble Regulating television: Channel-chopping Immigration and diversity: Here comes everyone Bagehot: Growing pains Science: The African genome project Political trends: Islands of democracy Nigeria: A bonfire of satire Iran: A hardliner wins, democracy loses Algeria and France: Lingering fallout The Supreme Court: The 3-3-3 court Business formation: Down and up Catholicism: Biden and the bishops Census data: Background noise Ocean farming: Kelp wanted Cocktails and peace treaties: The Foreign Not-in-Service Haiti: Banana Man loses his appeal Cannabis in Jamaica: Puffalo soldiers Quebec: Let them only speak French Bello: The monster of Managua Myanmar’s civil war: The downward spiral Invasive species: No more Mr Mice Guy The Philippines’ war on drugs: Silenced witness Underage marriage in Indonesia: Unlawfully wed Banyan: The book of Cho The Ainu: The stories we tell Retirement: Vanguard of the non-working class Farewell, Apple Daily: Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy newspaper has closed Education: Brought to book Chaguan: Hiding in plain sight Data collection: Flying blind China’s Communist Party at 100: In the beginning Internal rifts: Healing the wounds Surveillance: The anaconda effect Corporate sector: It’s our business, too Joining the party: The vanguard of the elite The party abroad: Flying the flag The next century: A future, with Chinese characteristics The future of mining: Rocks and hard places American utilities: Grid luck Chinese e-grocers: Selling like hot cakes Universal Music Group: Going solo Pandemic labour markets: Making short work of it Corporate governance in Japan: Machines and machinations Bartleby: Workers on the march Schumpeter: A new Tiger in town The international role of the euro: Euro visions Markets: The Fed prompts a change of heart Chinese finance: Brace, brace Buttonwood: Holding back the yields Corn Laws scythed, 175 years on: The appeal of Peel and repeal Revolut: Just dough it Free exchange: All change Fusion power: Seven-tenths of a yellow sun Palaeontology: Arctic dinosaurs Underground warfare: Tunnel vision Anterior cruciate ligament injuries: Wounded knees Culture and crime: Raider of the lost art Cold-war espionage: Sinned against and sinning Women and medicine: Body politics Adalbert Stifter: The idyll and the abyss Economic data, commodities and markets Retracted research: ’Tis but a scratch Kenneth Kaunda: Man and superman Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)