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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Stagflation risks: The shortage economy Social media: Facepalm Climate change and innovation: Hydrogen’s hope and hype Pakistan: An all-weather frenemy Ethiopia’s war in Tigray: No favours for killers Letters to the editor: On Angela Merkel, modern Arabic, decentralised finance, Canada, vaccines The hydrogen economy: A very big balancing act The debt ceiling: Groundhog days Incomes: Piketty lines Facebook: Whistle while you work Political science: Polarisation explorers Chicago history: From the ashes War from a distance: Droning on Lexington: Democratic discipline The Latinobarómetro poll: Democracy’s scorecard Canadian football: Shrinking balls, shrinking interest Argentina’s libertarians: No me pises Pakistan and the world: Now what? Asian cultural exports: Tentacular spectacular Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Shadowed by violence Banyan: Nil and void Menacing Taiwan: Too close for comfort Old Beijing: Bells and whistles Chaguan: China’s vision of free trade Into the diplomatic wilderness: Abiy against the world Ethiopia’s brutal war: Bodies in the fields France and Africa: Liaisons douloureuses Employment in the Gulf: Spending to stand still Iraq’s election: Boycott the boycott Turkey: Bosporus blues Italy: Rattling the right France and its church: The weight of silence The Pandora Papers: Embarrassing riches Charlemagne: Bigger is still better The economy: Flattened High-skilled visas: Only the best Women and crime: In the spotlight Social security: Help wanted Street lighting: In the gloaming Woodlands: Treedemic Bagehot: Toiling towards the sunlit uplands Private tutoring: Smart buys World trade: The new order of trade Trade law: A fraying system Precautionism: In search of resilience Labour rights: The urge to protect The environment: Making trade greener The new rules: A changed world Restyling China Inc: A new supermodel Carmaking: Electric blue and yellow Bartleby: Out-of-office experience Chipmaking: A golden-ish age Technology: The Mexican wave German property developers: Berlin walls and windows Schumpeter: The carbon-tax crackdown The world economy: Stagflation sensation Fossil fuels: Can’t live without them. Yet Capital ideas: Companies cast off their reluctance to invest America’s debt ceiling: #Mintthecoin Climate investing: Green party Buttonwood: Brave new world Free exchange: Grated expectations The 2021 Nobel science prizes: And the winners are... The thermoelectric effect: Cool thinking Symbiosis: Sea slugs and chloroplasts Malaria vaccines: Ready to roll News from the solar system: Other-worldly After the pandemic: Tomorrow’s world Social mobility and populism: The Russia option The history of science: Martian’s landing Business ethics: Virtue’s reward Literary lives: Daylight on the magic Economic data, commodities and markets Nobel prizes: Noblesse oblige Obituary: Bernard Tapie: Coeur de lion Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)