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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon If biohackers injected themselves with mRNA: Freedom to tinker If America tackled its opioid crisis: The other epidemic If a deadly heat wave hit India: A tale of two cities If everyone’s nutrition was personalised: You are what you eat If smartphones became personal health assistants: An Apple a day If marmosets lived on the Moon: Mrs Chippy’s benediction If dementia was preventable and treatable: Novel treatments If an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine: Rage against the machine If germ theory had caught on sooner: Germ of an idea After the pandemic: The long goodbye Holding elections: The real risk to America’s democracy Heatwaves: Mercury rising Hong Kong as a financial centre: Code red Europeans in Britain: A vote of confidence Letters to the editor: On Afghanistan, Tesla, UNESCO, Brazil, Geordies Covid-19 variants: Coats of many colours Republicans and elections: Razing Arizona Title 42: Border disorder UFOs: The truth is not out there Lexington: There goes the neighbourhood Cuba: Serve the people Indigenous Canadians: Searching for the truth Bello: Mestizaje, reality and myth North Korea’s economy: Taking back control South Indian politics: Meet the Dravidian Stalin Hygiene and culture: Return to sento Malaysian politics: Schrödinger’s government Banyan: Hindustani at heart The Chinese navy: Carry that weight Youth culture: Giving up, lying down Chaguan: It works until it doesn’t Covid-19 in Africa: Third time unlucky South Africa: Another kind of capture Ethiopia’s civil war: Defeat in the mountains Egypt and Gaza: Sisi sees an opportunity Food in the Gulf: Kitchen inconsequential Germany, Greece and Turkey: Shifting the balance Foreign aid: Unsustained development goals Montenegro: Darkness shrouds the mountain Obituary: Dick Leonard: Mr Europe Charlemagne: Politics by other means EU migrants: The five million Anti-lockdown protests: Opposites attract Economic statistics: A piece of the puzzle Government subsidies: Helping handout Pet theft: Paw patrol City lawyers: Suiting up Pity the drug-peddler: Dealing, with stress Bagehot: The comeback kid Home entertainment: The attention recession The future of offices (1): A hybrid new world The future of offices (2): Edifice complexities Big tech and antitrust: Is Facebook a monopolist? Bartleby: The perils of PR The film business: Curtain-raiser Schumpeter: Raining on the parade The economics of lockdowns: Lives v livelihoods House prices in America: On the simmer Banks in Hong Kong: Culture clash Buttonwood: Carrying on Free exchange: A decade of Chinese lessons Urban environments: The constant gardener Medical testing: Virtually real Palaeoanthropology: A new human species? Exploration and conquest: The ocean within New British fiction: Home sweet home Memory and mourning: In the name of the son The future of war: Computer says go Johnson: Check your privilege Economic data, commodities and markets Pandemic lifestyles: Back to the future Milkha Singh: Running as religion Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)