Articles

09.07.12 Publication: The Times

The issues are simple. That is what the massing ranks of Eurosceptics say, whether in bar-rooms, tea-rooms or TV studios. The British people must be allowed to...

25.06.12 Publication: The Times

Forget Greece. Put Spain to one side. The future of the euro will be decided in the country whose boot stretches stylishly between them in the middle of the...

11.06.12 Publication: The Times

The mind-concentrating merits of imminent catastrophe can be praised once again: the decision by euro-zone finance ministers to lend Spain enough money (100...

10.06.12 Publication: La Stampa

President Giorgio Napolitano was right when he said, last November when the new Monti government was being installed, that it was a time to tell, and face, the...

28.05.12 Publication: The Times

Is there nothing our government will not stoop to in order to make Britain look bad? Fresh from David Cameron’s lecturing of European leaders and the...

14.05.12 Publication: The Times

Many of us, when confronted with a ballot paper, feel an urge to put a cross in a box marked “a plague on all your houses”. The snag, representative...

06.05.12 Publication: La Stampa

Democracy is, at its most basic, a mechanism of control, of accountability. So elections are times for registering anger, for protesting, for punishing those...

30.04.12 Publication: The Times

Two ideas are gripping minds all over Europe. One is that next Sunday’s elections in France and Greece, spiced up by local elections in Italy on the same...

16.04.12 Publication: The Times

Do you want the good news or do you want the bad news? How many times, when someone has said that to you, have you wanted to wring their neck? Well, to save...

11.04.12 Publication: La Stampa

If you believe the financial markets, the difference between happy recovery and imminent disaster is 80,000 American jobs, in a country with a labour force of...

02.04.12 Publication: The Times

No one, it is safe to say, wants to hear any more about Cornish pasties, nor to find out whether any featured on the menu for those donors’ dinners in the...

22.03.12 Publication: The Times

Chancellors of the Exchequer seem to take an oath when they enter office that they will henceforward ensure that the words “iron” and “reforming”...

11.03.12 Publication: La Stampa

It has been a year of extraordinary swings of emotion. When news spread of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in north-east Japan on March 11th 2011,...

05.03.12 Publication: The Times

Birthday parties are not always happy occasions. One, probably apocryphal, story of one of Sir John Gielgud’s parties during his 80s has the great thespian...

28.02.12 Publication: La Stampa

China is the sort of country, and economy, that can make you feel giddy. No sooner do you think you have grasped the basics of how China works and the...

20.02.12 Publication: The Times

There is something spooky about the economic and financial scene on both sides of the Atlantic, something all too reminiscent of the summer of 2008. ...

14.02.12 Publication: CNN

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09.02.12 Publication: La Stampa

Time is said to be a great healer, but the way in which Italy’s image abroad has been transformed in the three months between President Silvio Berlusconi’s...

06.02.12 Publication: The Times

Let’s admit it. We have all greeted snowy transport paralysis by being pleased to stay at home, snuggle up, and have an excuse to open that bottle of whisky...

23.01.12 Publication: The Times

There is a time in all American presidential election campaigns when we outsiders, and probably many Americans too, scratch our heads and wonder why on earth...

15.01.12 Publication: La Stampa

The indiscipline of member states that led to the euro crisis, wrote a wise man last June, occurred thanks to "an unhealthy politeness towards each other, and...

09.01.12 Publication: The Times

Hands up all those against fairness? No, I thought not, and plainly David Cameron thinks not too, or he wouldn´t have launched the new year by...

19.12.11 Publication: Get them singing to our single market tune

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent, I shall attack.” Those reported words of Marshal Ferdinand Foch during a rather...

08.12.11 Publication: La Stampa

Sadly, one good day will not save the euro, and neither will pious promises to behave better in the future. For sure, Italy´s austerity plan and the...