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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Climate change: No safe place The growth scare: Delta’s beta Saving South Africa: End of the road for ANCnomics Tax in America: Internal affairs Scientific ethics: Brainstorming Letters to the editor: On lockdowns, Ethel Rosenberg, public relations, economics, seaweed, translating, space flight The three-degree world: Burning down the house Housing: Boombust Chinese cyber-attacks: Ctrl-alt-denounce The IRS: Seeking revenue Texas’s new abortion law: Lubbock or leave it Lexington: The rise of Ron DeSantis Trying to get ahead: The squeezed middle Brazil’s brain drain: Out the door Canada’s drug laws: High stakes India’s economy: The sick man of Asia Corruption in Kazakhstan: Get jabbed? Get stuffed! Myanmar’s opposition: Government of national disunity Covid-19 in Australia: Lock me down at your peril Banyan: The changing face of Japan Academic freedom in Hong Kong: Unhallowed halls Floods in Henan: A deluge in China has killed more than 30 and caused terror Surfing: Mother ocean Amid the rubble: The shaming of South Africa Syria’s economy: Narco-state on the Med Water: Dry and disorderly Germany: After the floods French labour shortages: A la carte Poland: The return of the Donald Crime in Sweden: Guns galore Charlemagne: Minority rights and wrongs Covid-19: Fighting for their right to party Schools and covid-19: Summer blues Roads and the environment: Going to seed Betting their shirts: How Premier League shirt sponsors have changed The Labour Party: Starmerist Regime Ornonomics: Doveish policy Bagehot: Boris at two Primate research: Monkey business Netflix: Season 3, coming soon The hydrogen business: Burning clean Social media: LinkedOut Bartleby: How to lead from afar Technology: Unicornucopia Schumpeter: War war v jaw jaw The uncertain economic recovery: Mixed messages Stimulus programmes: Peering down the cliff-edge The Delta effect: Hemmed in Climate resilience: Overlooked no more Buttonwood: A tiger’s tale The Big Mac index: The happiest meal Free exchange: War and peace Renewable energy: Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights Air conditioning: Cool ideas Gold, fool’s and real: Interior decorations Billionaire astronauts: Jeffrey Bezos goes into space The history of work: What a way to make a living Sex and censorship: Uneasy virtue A Baltic travelogue: The wrong side of history Journalism in Africa: Open letters Economic data, commodities and markets Vaccine hesitancy: Two roads diverged Yang Huaiding: Eating the crab Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)