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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The economy after covid-19: Winners and losers Nagorno-Karabakh: No one in charge American democracy: Don’t rob them, count them Sweden and covid-19: Land of the mask-free China’s fintech champion: On the march Letters to the editor: On Mexico, “Cuties”, democracy, Milton Friedman, the Supreme Court, Harold Evans, tanks Ant’s jumbo IPO: Queen of the colony War over Taiwan: Strait shooting Kyrgyzstan: Take three Elections in Tajikistan: Ballot-ticking exercise Polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Deliverance delayed A big K-pop IPO: Woke blokes Banyan: Modi the multi-tasker Law in Hong Kong: Slow strangulation The Dongba script: Rune revival Covid-19 in the White House: A sick body politic The vice-presidential debate: Rumble of the understudies Voter suppression: A battleground in Texas Neck-and-neck in Ohio: Swinging again Jobs (i): Entrepreneurship: Startup nation Jobs (ii): Lay-offs: A second wave Lexington: The battle in miniature Cuba: Welcome to Queueba Argentina: Alberto of the Antarctic Bello: Sliding down the pandemic snake Iran and China: Friends without benefits Israel: Sickly leadership Egypt: A rage for roads Ivory Coast’s election: Old men spell danger Nigeria’s economy: Fuel me once Money talk: Where calling is a calling War in the Caucasus: Heavy metal Greece: Selling Salamis France’s Greens: The cancelled Christmas tree The media in Poland: The Hungarian model Coronavirus in Sweden: The odd one out Charlemagne: The princess, the pea and foreign policy Rishi Sunak: Easy riser Dirty money: Please explain Vaccine programme: Ready, steady, jab Brexit talks: Deadline diplomacy Mortgage market: Fixing it Green energy: Straws in the wind Funeral culture: Deathly silence The world economy: The peril and the promise International trade: Changing places Labour markets: Zoom and gloom Competition: Survival of the fittest Interest rates: The eternal zero Emerging markets: Prognosis uncertain The role of government: The right kind of recovery The global shipping industry: It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good Canada’s oil industry: Crude crutch Cinemas: Curtains Regulating big tech: Ex-antics Bartleby: Free the workers Japanese telecoms: Dialling down Schumpeter: Battle for the iron throne The future of finance: The digital surge Labour markets in Europe: Pain relief America’s presidential election: Braced for impact International trade: Working to rule Buttonwood: Feel the burn Free exchange: Beggars banquet The 2020 Nobel science prizes: They walked in looking like dynamite Living with El Niño: One man’s bane is another’s bounty New materials: Joint approach Conservation: How to prepare poached eggs Money and morals: The way of the world The history of science: Sleeping giants Classical music: Phoning it in Pets and poetry: Dead cat bounce Theaster Gates: Feats of clay Economic data, commodities and markets Politics and the internet: Web of distrust Swami Agnivesh: Of human bondage Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)