Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT) Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Post-truth politics: Art of the lie Elections in Hong Kong: A not-so-local difficulty England’s National Health Service: Bitter pills Economic reform in the Gulf: Time to sheikh it up Interest-rate caps: Cut-price logic On housing, wild horses, Scotland, child sex abuse, longevity: Letters to the editor The post-truth world: Yes, I’d lie to you The Affordable Care Act: Encumbered exchange The election campaign: On the trail National security and 2016: Sewers to submarines Georgetown and slavery: Atonement Lexington: Land made for you and me A Mexican minister falls: The cost of an unwanted guest Avocado wars: Rich, creamy and rare Venezuela’s hapless leader: Chávez without the charm Bello: The impeachment country Afghan refugees in Pakistan: Homecoming spleen Ending Myanmar’s insurgencies: A long road Japanese politics: Get the party started The wit and wisdom of Rodrigo Duterte: Shoot from the lip Australia and China: You can’t buy trust Politics in Hong Kong: The city that scares China Giant pandas: Survival of the cutest Banyan: Abide with Mao Labour laws in the Gulf: From oil to toil Migration in the Gulf: Open doors but different laws Extremism in Jordan: Muzzling mosques Driving in Johannesburg: Bad robots Somalia: Most-failed state Turkey’s Gulen purges: A conspiracy so immense Spain’s coalition talks: Ageing caretakers Ireland and Europe: Upsetting the Apple cart Homeopathy in Germany: Not a molecule of sense Donald Trump and the Russians: Brazen meddling Russian social media: Tweetaganda Charlemagne: Unshrinking the continent Britain and the European Union: So what will Brexit really mean? The National Health Service: Accident and emergency Dockyards: Sea change Chinese schools: Babes among dragons Cricket’s crunch: Sticky wicket Hate crime: Bearing the brunt Race relations: Slavery’s legacies A.P. Moller-Maersk: Profits overboard Auditors aren’t so bad: Box ticked Reliance Jio: Free speech Smartphones: Still ringing bells Fashion retailing: Passé The space business: Mission, interrupted German firms in America: Making eyes across the ocean German power companies: Breaking bad Schumpeter: Shhhh! Investing in commodities: Of mice and markets Buttonwood: Acclimatising The G20 and the world economy: Agreeing to disagree Kenya’s interest-rate cap: Ceiling whacks Offshore finance: The holdout Long-term private-equity funds: The Omaha play Financial education: Quantum of scholars Free exchange: All in the family Building materials: Top of the tree The story of yeast: Domesticated tipple Military technology: Top Gun’s topper China: Water, water, everywhere The right in America: Hand on heart Biography: Shades of Byzantium The Venice film festival: Showtime Johnson: Talking in tongues Obituary: Juan Gabriel: Mexico’s mirror Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index The Economist poll of forecasters, September averages Markets