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本期文章: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon Government and business: Beware the bossy state British politics: Party animal Schools and covid-19: Poor students Russia and Central Asia: Standemonium India: Stop inciting murder Financial risk: A good idea, until it isn’t Letters to the editor: On the Republicans, Ukraine, gaming, running with bulls, corrugated iron, doors Central Asia: Steppe in the dark Law enforcement: Refunding the police Foreign policy: Diplomacy minus diplomats Biden’s judges: Filling the courts Schools out: Classes cancelled Buildings burning: Two tragedies, one explanation The future of Austin: City limits Lexington: Death, taxes and a failing presidency Tech disruption: Silicon linings Brazil: Jair and balanced Ice hockey: A puck in the teeth India: Playing with fire Wildlife trafficking: Some like it otter Sri Lanka’s economy: Thanks, but no thanks Borders: Djebacle Banyan: Treading water Politics in 2022: All change, bar one Chaguan: One accident away from disaster Crossing the Mediterranean: An EU-funded horror story Cycling in the Arab world: Make way Ethiopia: Happy Christmas, war is over? Russia and Africa: Wagner, worse than it sounds Russia and the West: Teetering at the summit France’s election: Unfashionably gauche Christmas in Ukraine: Swimming with the Yuletide The Netherlands: Unclogging Europe Charlemagne: Gas nightmares Boris Johnson: Breaking bad Energy and inflation: It’s not cheap being green Coronavirus testing: Look away Civil celebrants: Match and dispatch Atlantic rainforest: The wood and the trees Retail investment: Automatic for the people Bagehot: What did you expect? Microeconomics: The point of tipping Business and the state: The new interventionism The new industrial policy: Return to picking winners Competition policy: Antitrust redux Government regulation: Rules just keep on growing Corporate taxes: To tax or not to tax The future: The liberal fightback Sources and acknowledgments The business of medicine: Move fast and heal things Business in Germany: What the Mittelstand wants The oil industry: The new great game Bartleby: Of remote work and writing Schumpeter: Creative seduction Capital flows: Super savers Uranium: Atom and abroad America’s consumers: Life after stimmy Pensions in Germany: Aversion therapy Buttonwood: Sexagenarians and the City Insurance in China: Taming tigers Free exchange: Remote prospects Seismology: And now, stay tuned for the earthquake forecast Climate change: Unfrozen North Xenotransplantation: Happy news Baby-boomers: The world’s biggest fish hatchery Omicron and immunity: The start of something new? Art in Japan: By the people, for the people Hollywood legends: The defiant one Germany after the second world war: Out of the abyss Dystopian fiction: Who knows best? Johnson: Loudmouths and small voices Indicators: Economic data, commodities and markets The economics of opportunity: Wages and places Richard Leakey: Homo impatiens Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)