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Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT) Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon The Republicans: Time to fire him Britain and the European Union: The real danger of Brexit Making Indonesia work: Open up Traffic in megacities: Jam today Privacy and security: Code to ruin? International students, Trump history, China's economy, monuments, tax reliefs, linguistics, Supreme Court: Letters to the editor Britain and the EU: The Brexit delusion Britain’s EU reforms: A change of status Marco Rubio: The moral of his story The Nevada caucuses: Winning big The campaigns: Heard on the trail The religious left: The least of these Fringe movements: Finding Keepers Lexington: A Latino firewall totters Crime in Mexico: Mean beaches Urban architecture: Biography of a building Bello: Evo Morales’s fall from grace Caste in India: Backward ho! Individualism in South Korea: Zero to hero Politics in Japan: What’s in a name? Traffic in the Philippines’ capital: Slowly does it Politics in Cambodia: Same old, same old Banyan: Taking arms Football: Patriotic goal Single parents: Pariahs Online dissent: Punching high Trade within Africa: Tear down these walls Ethiopia’s drought: On the edge of disaster Syria: Russia calls the shots Consanguineous marriage: Keeping it in the family Israeli politics: An Arab agenda Iran’s election: Even hardliners want reform Kurdistan: Fin de renaissance Refugees in Greece: No way out German right-wingers: Radikale Rechte Organised crime: China nostra Happiness in Europe: Hell is other people, for Swedes Charlemagne: Ever farther union The justice system: Law in a time of austerity Tories and the EU referendum: Blue on blue Nuclear energy: What’s the (Hinkley) point? Schools and careers: Posh professions European migrants: Tunnels and channels Pig farming: Fearing the wurst Foreign property-buyers: Mountains and molehills Ending energy poverty: Power to the powerless Indonesia: Jokowi’s moment Politics: Lone fighter Corruption: The Setya show Business and economics: Roll out the welcome mat Infrastructure: The 13,466-island problem Foreign policy: Less talk, more action Forests: A world on fire Looking ahead: The country of the future Industry in China: The march of the zombies The India-China trade gap: Arrive full, leave empty The film business: Fading stars Hollywood: Silver-screen playbook Natural resources: Flare-up German industry: Town and company Schumpeter: On the stump Share trading: Complicate, then prevaricate Exchange mergers: Stocks exchanged Banks and money-laundering: Whoops apocalypse Buttonwood: Donald ducks the big questions China’s stockmarket: Fail to the chief Reshaping banking: Shake your money makers BBVA: Digital addition India’s budget: Leap of faith Free exchange: Gotham on Thames Free exchange: Correction:“Chop, chop”, January 30th Cryptography: Taking a bite at the Apple Cancer: A run a day keeps the tumour at bay Trachoma: Now is the time to say “goodbye” Sexual reproduction: Plucking rubies from the rubbish Cuckoldry and song: Fidelio Hieronymus Bosch: Painter of our greatest fears British newspapers: Per ardua ad Astor Return to nature: Animal instinct Free-diving: Blue hole, black hole Family ties: In knots Johnson: Je suis circonflexe Harper Lee and Umberto Eco: The finger of fame Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Sovereign-wealth funds Markets