Articles

04.05.14 Publication: La Stampa

In July, Italy will have an opportunity that is also a responsibility. It is an opportunity to show leadership in Europe, an opportunity to launch something...

04.05.14 Publication: La Stampa

In July, Italy will have an opportunity that is also a responsibility. It is an opportunity to show leadership in Europe, an opportunity to launch...

26.03.14 Publication: Nikkei Business

Can countries or regions learn from each other? They certainly should, since international data and experiences are a big potential resource for policy-makers....

26.03.14 Publication: La Stampa

One eternal truth about modern China is that it is constantly changing. No sooner than you think you understand what is going on, especially in the economy,...

12.03.14 Publication: La Stampa

Three years ago, when Japan suffered the extraordinary triple shock of a massive earthquake, huge tsunami and nuclear accident, many people expected the event...

27.02.14 Publication: L´espresso

For someone who claims to want to emulate Britain’s Tony Blair, Matteo Renzi has made a strange start in national politics.  When I...

09.02.14 Publication: La Stampa

If you are an international investor, everything has changed in the world economy since 2014 began. If you are a young unemployed person in Italy, Britain or...

28.01.14 Publication: Nikkei Business

In democracies, when things are going badly citizens and commentators alike tend to call for “more leadership”. But then when they get leadership, they...

24.12.13 Publication: La Stampa

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin will celebrate the end of 2013 and the arrival in early 2014 of Christmas—in Russia’s Orthodox Church Christmas will be on...

20.12.13 Publication: Literary Review

Working in Japan as a foreign correspondent, as your reviewer did three decades ago for The Economist and as David Pilling did brilliantly for the Financial...

13.12.13 Publication: L´espresso

So the whole world now knows what Italians have known for years: that Matteo Renzi fancies himself as Italy’s Tony Blair. Presumably, what Renzi...

10.12.13 Publication: La Stampa

Outside Italy, the news is shocking. But in a good way, you understand. To foreign observers, the election of Matteo Renzi brings the shock realization that...

09.12.13 Publication: FT

M​aurice Saatchi, the great adman and Tory peer, said that Tony Blair’s election victory in Britain in 1997 could be explained by his capture of a...

27.10.13 Publication: La Stampa

“Don’t get caught.” That was the answer given to me by a former senior British intelligence official when I asked him about what principles should govern...

15.09.13 Publication: La Stampa

There’s no doubt about it: suddenly Japan feels “hot”, and that is not just a comment about the exceptionally warm weather that greeted me in Tokyo, nor...

15.09.13 Publication: La Stampa

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13.09.13 Publication: FT

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03.08.13 Publication: La Stampa

Ever since 2001, when we at The Economist wrote on our notorious cover that Silvio Berlusconi was “unfit” to lead Italy, I have been told that there is not...

24.07.13 Publication: La Stampa

I must admit I was a bit surprised. Yesterday I was having my hair cut, in my small village in the English countryside, and the elderly lady in the chair next...

24.07.13 Publication: La Stampa

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21.07.13 Publication: La Stampa

There is nothing that we sceptical, suspicious, sometimes rather insular Brits like more than when someone comes to visit us and speaks our language—in more...

29.06.13 Publication: The Times

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09.06.13 Publication: La Stampa

We all like simple narratives. Yet even our favoured narratives often contradict one another. One popular storyline is the idea that when a new power rises up,...

18.05.13 Publication: The Times

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