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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon The world economy: Will inflation return? Brexit trade negotiations: Last tango in Brussels The IPO boom: Capital idea Transgender medicine: First, do no harm The music industry: Knock-knock-knockin’ on Jody’s door On race data, Galicia, epidemiology, Bosnia, companies, Jonathan Sacks, China: Letters to the editor Inflation: Prognostication and prophecy Black Lives Matter: The George Floyd effect African-American businesses: Capital punishment The never-ending election: Final countdown The urinal is political: Where have all the toilets gone? Anti-Semitism accusations: Here today, zone tomorrow The Fort Hood report: A look under the Hood Economic policy: Picking a package Lexington: When America and China went to war Nicaragua: Seeing off a strongman Cuba: Udder delight Bello: Natural and political disasters Covid-19 in Japan: 3C epiphany Suicide in South Korea: Deepening despair Nature conservation in Thailand: Unshellfish love Policing in the Philippines: Beatings v shootings Banyan: Cosplaying nice Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: Club Mud Exporting Xi Jinping thought: How the party trains foreign politicians Club culture: A different beat Chaguan: China doubles down in Xinjiang Mining’s toxic legacy: Lead astray Ghana’s election: Skirt and blouse The boycott of Qatar: Bridging the Gulf The Yazidis: Divided, oppressed and abandoned Football: The most racist club in Israel... Covid vaccines: Coming soon Germany and covid-19: In vino, virus France and Islamism: The republic strikes back Italy: Unchained Meloni Romania’s election: Diluting the cleanser Charlemagne: Republic of cranks Brexit: Fade to grey Regulating technology: Injection of confidence Culture wars (1): Roads must fall Culture wars (2): New school rules Covid-19: Out of sight The environment: Chasing rainbows? The Shetland Islands: Carrion call Trans rights: Boys and girls Corporate balance-sheets: A year of raising furiously Big tech and antitrust: Battle commences Bartleby: Fair play Information technology: Hitting the reset button Commercial arbitration: The case of the disappearing cases Self-driving cars: Spinning off Schumpeter: Dirigiste? Moi? Productivity trends: Reasons to be cheerful Buttonwood: C’mon feel the noise Oil production: Opening the taps Mexico’s unbanked: Bringing Mexicans to account Climate finance: Counting the carbs Free exchange: A question of illumination Hydrogen-powered flight: If at first you don’t succeed... Sonic warfare: A megamegaphone The fiery end of SN8: SpaceX's latest launch Gene therapy: Eyeball to eyeball Bees versus hornets: The uses of dung American extremism: Fear and loathing Intellectual history: Pleasure principles Johnson: Eiffel power Contemporary art: The room where it happens Economic data, markets and commodities Economic research: Starving for knowledge Chuck Yeager: Mechanic to hero Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)