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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon This week’s covers Riding high Can the West win over the rest? Macron’s blunder Lessons from Oregon Epic ambition On China and Ukraine, George Orwell, science and religion, video games, “Barbie”, height Jonathan Powell on preparations for peace-making in Ukraine Intelligence leaks are an opportunity as well as a threat, says Thomas Rid From strength to strength Putting the Indo into Indo-Pacific Boba generation Kishida in the clear Rewriting Indian history Cramming Xi Jinping Thought What passes for justice Moderate exercises The slides that came in from the cold The Oregon experiment Perverse political maths Mifepristone muddle Third-rail thriller Clarence Thomas’s rules Eclipsed by radical militants Of militants and money-changers The disappeared All right for some Back in the big league Losing its sheen Total chaos The woman at the heart of Europe The ground beneath his feet Not waterproof The cough, cough continent Tax brakes Talk talk Vertical limits Rishi Sunak, Tory technocrat How to survive a superpower split Welcome to the green swamp Nickel and dimes ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, reports a record profit Yes, they can (and box, and package) To build or to buy? How to thrive in the video age Down memory lane A new era of petrodollar power 28 years later Global pandemic The big squeeze High-stake cards Handbags at dawn Lassoed Twenty years later... Walking on water Bugs in the system Prima donna High and dry Common denominators To the letter Economic data, commodities and markets A different way to measure the climate impact of food Why so many Russian tanks fall prey to Ukrainian mines How to measure poverty To look misery in the eye Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)