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本期文章: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon The world economy: Danger ahead Build Back Better: SALT in the wounds Technology: Local heroes Sex and gender: Bad medicine Global crime: Who will police Interpol? Letters to the editor: On Kyle Rittenhouse, Centerra Gold, housing, social mobility, London’s bridges, business speak The Omicron variant: Watchful waiting State-and-local-tax deduction: A tax plan for the upper, upper class Tainted water: Message in a bottle Crime tech: Shot spotty Abortion rights: Roe’s last stand Navy shipyards: All at sea Guns and cars: Beep beep, bang bang Lexington: Son of a slave Mexico: Missing links Honduras: A leftward turn Bello: Pictures at two exhibitions India’s population: The patter of fewer tiny feet Politics in Kyrgyzstan: Ready for take-off? Seasteading: A stop in the ocean Business in Japan: At the sharp end Banyan: A familiar script Unmarried mothers: Against the tide Sport and human rights: Ballsy Chaguan: Why China says it is a democracy The Omicron variant: Omicro-aggressions African tech: Seeding the cloud China and Africa: Pomp and circumspection Iran: In need of water, not uranium Booze in Saudi Arabia: Drinking and driving Spain: The tests of tolerance Language in Spain: Accenting the negative Ukraine and Russia: Waiting for the freeze German-American relations: High-pressure umbrage Italy’s next president: Guess who? Charlemagne: On bullshit: Brussels edition Conversion therapy: Missing the mark Spycraft: Open book Lord Frost: Portrait of a Brexiteer Property: Catching up on the capital Immigration: Straws in the wind Sinn Fein: United, across the border Bagehot: Jordan Peterson and the lobster Global crime: Interpolitics Asian tech firms: Hot tropics Social media: Exiting the Twittersphere Bartleby: The office of the future The music business: Ghosts of Christmas past Internet censorship: Cancel culture, Beijing-style Valuing patents: Billion-dollar blueprints Schumpeter: No more tears China’s slowdown: Omicronomics Emerging markets: Hazards ahead Climate finance: Squeezing the balloon Investment in India: Over flows Buttonwood: After the flood Norges Bank Investment Management: Point of low returns? Free exchange: Taming wildcats Random numbers: Flipping heck! Planetology: The memory of water Mobile phones: Through a glass, brightly Electric flight: Whirly birds are go Trypanosomes: A nasty sting The politics of history: The rice bowl’s tale Embattled minorities: Stations of the cross The Beatles: A long and winding ode Forgotten wars: Message in a bottle Cinema royalty: Two faces of a star Economic data, commodities and markets The gulag: “Levelling up” at gunpoint Stephen Sondheim: Keep moving on Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)