Articles

13.11.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Everyone knows, or thinks that they know, that American power is declining. And yet everyone also wants America’s attention, and wants some reflected glory...

01.11.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It has been called the worst financial crisis to have occurred in the past 60 years. Others have said it is simply unprecedented. Even Alan Greenspan, the...

29.10.09 Publication: The Times

Here is an oddity. Most human progress, in overcoming natural obstacles, say, or curing diseases, has been driven by optimism—the view that if we only try...

25.10.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is a problem at the very heart of democracy: are anyone’s political ideas so objectionable that they should not be allowed to be heard in public,...

16.10.09 Publication: The Times

Can there ever have been an American president who has been prejudged, judged and then rejudged as soon and as relentlessly as has Barack Obama? Certainly not...

02.10.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This is an important week for European politics, and especially for the politics of my own country, Britain. The reasons lie across the sea from us in Ireland...

01.10.09 Publication: The Times

This is an important week for the politics and policy of Britain, but not for any reason connected to the froth of party conferences, prescription drugs or Sun...

21.09.09 Publication: The Times

An economic crisis that began as a drama, or even a tragedy, is descending into farce. It is bad enough at home, what with Labour and the Tories arguing over...

19.09.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

In Britain, we have become accustomed to the deaths of our soldiers, in Afghanistan like in Iraq. Even so, the death of six in a suicide attack in Kabul would...

01.09.09 Publication: The Times

Careless talk costs lives, said the wartime poster. Nowadays, it can damage the talker´s credibility, as it has in the case of the remarks by Lord...

26.08.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

During the 1980s, Europeans knew little about Japan but wanted to know more. Since Japan’s financial crash in 1990-92, Europeans have felt they can safely...

25.08.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Economic recovery is gathering pace, or at least evidence, all around the world, even if neither Italy nor Britain have yet matched the positive GDP data seen...

20.08.09 Publication: The Times

Proclamations of economic recovery in the past week in Japan, France and Germany, and soon in Britain and America too, may well signal the end of the Great...

13.08.09 Publication: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6793921.ece All around the world, economies seem to be turning a corner,...

13.08.09 Publication: The Times

All around the world, economies seem to be turning a corner, moving out of a period of this global recession in which the good news was just that things were...

23.07.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When you are the world’s only true superpower, then every region is important to you. That is why, whenever President Barack Obama or his secretary of state,...

15.07.09 Publication: Asahi Shimbun

A time for change. That is the basic feeling that surrounds elections in parliamentary democracies all over the world, especially when one party has been in...

14.07.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

In most countries, a violent uprising by an ethnic minority which had to be suppressed by mobilising thousands of troops would be considered a sign of weakness...

26.06.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Can it just be a coincidence that we are seeing signs of an early recovery in the Chinese economy at the same time as the European Union and the United States...

25.06.09 Publication: The Guardian

Perhaps in half a century, the world will be rather more interesting than the Sino-centric one offered by Martin Jacques In my view there is both less to...

22.05.09 Publication: The Times

A Victorian historian said that Britain “conquered... half the world in a fit of absence of mind”. Chinese Communist Party leaders are not normally...

12.05.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

For the past few days, the British public has been enjoying an unusual form of entertainment. It has consisted of daily revelations about the sums of money...

26.04.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Every writer, singer or actor depends for his livelihood on the legal and moral protection of his work from theft, or what these days we call piracy. For that...

22.04.09 Publication: The Guardian

Despite Darling´s best efforts, the rich won´t bolt, the tax rise won´t raise much, and Labour will still lose the general...