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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Superpower politics: The most dangerous place on Earth Long covid: And now for the aftershock America’s economy: Biden’s taxing problem Hungary: Viktor Orban’s university challenge Hybrid diplomacy: The virtue of virtual Letters to the editor: On money-laundering, voting in Georgia, European TV, museums, Ebenezer Howard, simplifying China and Taiwan: Something wicked this way comes Biden’s beginning: 100 days of aptitude SCOTUS and free speech: Sidelined Classics at Howard: Finis Escaping from the epidemic: Overproof Lexington: In praise of the Mormon right AMLO’s military ambitions: Sergeant López Obrador The pandemic in Venezuela: Thyme, the great healer Bello: How will the covid-19 bill be paid? Japan’s foreign relations: Panda power South Korea’s economy: Chips and blocks Australia and covid-19: Isolation nation Covid-19 in India: Heartening heroics Banyan: A real tree-for-all Demography: Is China’s population shrinking? Analysing China: Doves become hawks The movie business: Dissing Oscar Israel and Palestine: Past their sell-by date Iraq: The enemy of my enemy Crisis in Somalia: Villa-squatting Africa’s unfinished buildings: A room without a roof Turkey and Armenia: Caucasian knot Poland: The rule of Law and Justice Religion in Spain: Empty pews, big pulpit France and covid-19: Geeks v bureaucrats Charlemagne: Shh! A silent centralisation Upcoming elections: It’s all happening in Hartlepool Sewage: Pond dipping Scotland: Peely-wally Scotland and England: Bordering on nervous Northern Ireland: Foster falls Salmon and Brexit: Fishy statistics City jobs: Remainers Bagehot: Domestic politics Diplomacy disrupted: The Zoom where it happens Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: Living on the edge Digital advertising: Flying blind The steel industry in India: White hot Commercial property: Safe as warehouses Wood products: Forest bump Labour relations in Germany: The king of Wolfsburg Bartleby: When the boss is behind you Schumpeter: The magical realism of Tesla The economic recovery: Money, machines and mayhem Taxing capital: Benchmarking Biden Buttonwood: Up to speed India’s economy: Lights, power, inaction Labour shortages in America: Help wanted The Turkish lira: Money for nothing Free exchange: Building a boom Post-covid syndrome: The sting in the tail Fiction and politics in Turkey: Orhan Pamuk’s plagues Women of the resistance: Righteous furies Impressionistic fiction: Home, alone Interspecies relations: Creature discomforts The art of food: Making a meal of it Economic data, commodities and markets Military spending: Buck for the bang LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Black snake, sacred water Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)