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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon London’s stockmarket: From Big Bang to a whimper Xi Jinping’s campaign: China’s new reality Japanese politics: Uninspired Sex and language: She who must not be named Taxes in America: Ways and means The future of food: Working up an appetite Letters: On the World Bank, housing, supply chains, expats, Islamic sites, the book index The City of London: Britain’s sluggish stockmarket The world’s stockmarkets: Who’s up, who’s down? The Democrats’ tax plans: From whatever source derived Elections: Still stopping the steal Forgetting Haiti: The rest is history SCOTUS: Term time Rikers Island: Aggravated robbery Gentrifying prisons: Fulsome Lexington: Green on brown Brazil: A conservative crack-up Brazil’s submarines: Underwater atoms Bello: Between hope and fear Afghan politics: A delicate balance Diplomacy: Mission control Japanese politics: Sub-prime minister Belt and Road: Laosy bets Banyan: A raid against dissent Political struggles: The people’s dictator Chaguan: When China wants to be feared Tunisia: Fiddling while Carthage burns Libya: One Qaddafi wasn’t enough Pension funds: Building bridges South Africa: When the ANC withers Germany’s election: Advantage Scholz The eastern Mediterranean: Paris Philhellenic Russia: Putin in hiding Covid-19 and labour markets: Roam work Charlemagne: A very European election The fuel crisis: Running on empty Housing: Change of plan Therapy: Breaking through Studying classics: Bearing gifts Labour markets: He-cession Regional policy: The Manchester two-step Bagehot: A blustery week Conscription: Call on me Future food: The new Anthropocene diet Plant-based meat and dairy: Mooving on Lab-grown meat: Cell-side markets Precision fermentation: Culture club Urban farming: Green castles in the sky Overlooked foods: Features and bugs Ford and General Motors: Electric Motor City Supply chains: Out of the groove Stockmarket listings in America: A key moment in capitalism Bartleby: Better not squash Schumpeter: How bosses should write books China jitters (1): The property complex China jitters (2): The political premium Xi’s electric: The latest shock to China’s economy: power shortages Property in the rich world: Home truths The Federal Reserve: Setting rates and trading them, too Buttonwood: Supermayhem Free exchange: Black cat, white cat, fat cat, thin cat Aquaculture: Seaweed at scale Sequencing genetic material: A hole in one? Palaeontology: Crimes of passion Picturing God: With his outstretched arm The second world war: Graveyard of empires The end of cash: Kill bills Johnson: Standing up for standard Economic data, commodities and markets Agricultural emissions: The beef with beef George Holliday: The man on the balcony Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)