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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Russia’s future: Putin’s next move The pandemic in India: Covid catastrophe Germany’s election: September showdown Bubbly Wall Street: The SPAC spectacle Chad: The false promise of stability Letters to the editor: On the EU, Altamira, American English, methane, data, workers Putin’s Russia: Something is rotten The Russian economy: Under siege Foreign policy under Joe Biden: Overload Joe Biden’s climate summit: Promising the Earth Derek Chauvin’s trial: Two degrees and reparation Transgender treatments: Blocked Walter Mondale dies aged 93: Reassessing a would-be president Religion in America: Baptism by fire Lexington: The Great Game Immigration to Canada: A wider welcome Vaccine queue jumping: Kicking covid Guatemala’s courts: Domino effect Bello: After the myth, the grim facts India’s surging outbreak: First as tragedy Politics in India: The road show must go on Pakistan’s religious extremists: A government held to ransom Australian place names: Nominal interest Kyrgyzstan’s referendum: Back to the khanate? Banyan: Tug of war Hacking China: Watching them watching you Health care: Dangerous work Hong Kong crackdown: The end of the road Chaguan: Art attack Covid-19 in Africa: Doses of scepticism Chad: The dictator dies Stateless in Zimbabwe: Papers, please Saudi Arabia: The prince’s big bet Transport in Egypt: Daily disasters Germany: Green on black Finland’s universities: Mind the gap year The EU and AI: The Brussels effect Covid-19 and the Netherlands: Terraced grousing Charlemagne: The Draghi delusion Drug deaths in Scotland: In need of a fix Commercial law: Ruling the world Darktrace: Out of the shadows Museums: Empty halls Housing: When Generation Rent retires Mortgages: Regulator says no Bagehot: Football Tories Women in war: Officers and gentlewomen The sports business: They think it’s all over The energy transition: The gaseous mega-bet Business software: The robots are coming Bartleby: The new office etiquette The future of carmaking: The non-motor show Pharmaceuticals: Lab life Schumpeter: Modi operandi Economic sanctions: Handle with care Buttonwood: The art of war Bad debt in China: Righting Huarong Isaiah Andrews: Model behaviour Emerging markets: The wave v the tantrum Amundi: Alpha plus Free exchange: Protection racket Covid-19 and the Defence Production Act: A vaxxing problem Coffee and climate change: Stimulated thinking Evolutionary stasis: Gold bug Cancer research: An inward observatory Aeronautics on Mars: The Wright stuff Kudos in the arts: And the winner is…who cares? Peacekeeping: Local heroes Schumpeter’s heirs: Innovate to accumulate Johnson: Woof’s the word Economic data, commodities and markets Suicides: Welcome reprieve Bernard Madoff: Just one big lie Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)