Articles

01.02.07 Publication: Ushio

This year in my country, Britain, one of our longest-serving and most famous prime ministers will announce his retirement. Tony Blair established a worldwide...

01.02.07 Publication: Exame

In today’s globalised economy, with fast-growing and appealing countries like the BRICs, it is hard being a rich, mature economy like Japan. By comparison to...

25.01.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Every year at this time, the gathering that is the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, generates contradictory emotions. One set of emotions make me...

09.01.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Europe tends to view Asia as if through one eye at a time. In the 1980s, it consisted of the Japanese threat to European industry. In the 1990s and for much of...

04.01.07 Publication: International Herald Tribune

By Vladimir Dlouhy and Bill EmmottA twice-yearly European ritual began this week when Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her priorities during Germany´s six...

02.01.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is common for prime ministers to end their time in office by being disliked at home, but admired abroad. It has something to do with the fruits of excessive...

01.01.07 Publication: Exame

The world economy has had such a fantastic four years that it has seemed almost rude, or perhaps imprudent, to ask why. The usual answer that is given is...

01.01.07 Publication: Ushio

There is a common proverb in English that says that “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. The meaning of this saying is that many policies or...

16.12.06 Publication: Corriere della Sera

New Year’s Day is supposed to be a happy occasion, on which the troubles of last year can be forgotten, and when the new year is too young for troubles to...

06.12.06 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The atmosphere in London is creative, excited and a little bit scared. For almost the only theory that has not been circulated seriously about the...

01.12.06 Publication: Ushio

Science fiction books in the 1950s and 1960s often seemed to feature human colonies, in the far distant future, that had been established on the Moon, or on...

23.11.06 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Ever since Russia temporarily shut off gas supplies to Ukraine in January, "energy security" has been the hottest topic, if you will forgive such a...

01.11.06 Publication: Ushio

At one time, when there was a clear distinction between leftists and rightists in politics, the main task for political candidates was to sound different from...

29.10.06 Publication: Corriere della Sera

There is something strange about the debate inside our European Union about enlargement, and in particular about the...

13.10.06 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Lenin would be astonished. No, I don´t mean the real Lenin, asleep in his mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow. I am talking personally, as the man whose photo...

01.10.06 Publication: Ushio

In every country around the world, in politics there are some issues on which good politicians know that it is vital to say the right words, but then to avoid...

01.09.06 Publication: Ushio

How fortunate it must have been to be a leader like China´s Mao Zedong. The man who in effect became China´s Communist emperor from 1949 until his...

01.08.06 Publication: Ushio

When I was visiting Milan and Florence recently, I was reminded how appealing Italy is to Japanese visitors. Although Florence was also full of American...

01.07.06 Publication: Ushio

In recent years, especially in Europe and America there has been a common lament, at least among the older and literate sort of people. It is that modern life...

01.06.06 Publication: Ushio

Ever since 1945, when the first nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has lived with an extraordinary contradiction. This is the fact...

01.05.06 Publication: Ushio

Sometimes, we become so preoccupied by what is happening today, that we forget what happened only yesterday. This matters because where we have come from also...

01.04.06 Publication: The Economist

Valedictory A long goodbyeBill Emmott, who stands down as editor on March 31st, offers his parting thoughts WITH April Fool´s Day as the publication date on...

01.03.06 Publication: The Economist

British politics The final days of Tony Blair If Britain´s prime minister is not thinking about stepping down, he should be ONCE upon a time...

01.03.06 Publication: Ushio

Editors of newspapers and magazines like to think of themselves as quite influential people. But usually they are not. Politicians do pay court to them, but...