Publication: La Stampa

03.04.20 Publication: La Stampa

Children often have better instincts than us supposedly experienced adults. In early March, when I was giving a talk to a group of teenage pupils at a school...

03.02.20 Publication: La Stampa

Welcome to the great Brexit anti-climax. It was postponed twice last year, Britain went into a kind of political nervous breakdown over it, then held a...

01.02.20 Publication: La Stampa

Just over two years ago my former magazine, The Economist, put President Xi Jinping on its cover and described him as “The world’s most powerful man”....

14.12.19 Publication: La Stampa

The British public have chosen the lesser of the two evils that were offered to them in the country’s first December general election since 1923. The result...

30.08.19 Publication: La Stampa

What is a populist political party, what is its purpose and how worried should we be? Those questions have been buzzing around in the heads of political...

12.07.19 Publication: La Stampa

We will not know until July 24 whether Britain’s next prime minister will be Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, and we may not know until after the summer...

28.05.19 Publication: La Stampa

It can be counted as a protest vote against the previous protest vote. That is of course an over-simplification of the European Parliament elections, as any...

03.02.19 Publication: La Stampa

The trade war between the United States and China risks getting nastier, lasting for years and damaging all our economies. Negotiations in Washington, DC, on...

31.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

Let’s face it: the typical view in the outside world about Italian political crises is that they are dramatic but not serious. That may be why so little...

26.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

All politicians need luck, especially in their early months in office. So the lucky star has certainly shone on Japan’s new prime minister,...

13.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

What do Donald Trump, Five Star, the Lega, Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban have in common? The answer is that they all favour closed...

10.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

Europe faces a severe test of its resilience, its coherence, its self-sufficiency -- the toughest, in fact, since 1945. Deserted and attacked by its closest...

08.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

Perplexed. Baffled. Disdainful. Pitying. But in the end, not really interested. Those are sort of the words and phrases that came to my mind as I asked...

27.04.18 Publication: La Stampa

It made great television, for the place where the leaders of North and South Korea met on April 27th, the so-called De-Militarized Zone on the border between...

06.04.18 Publication: La Stampa

Across Europe, left-wing, social-democratic parties are in disarray, unable to find a coherent answer to the global financial crisis and to high public debts...

13.01.18 Publication: La Stampa

In every national election, there is a choice of emphasis: policies, political parties or personalities. While winner-takes-all electoral systems in the US,...

06.11.17 Publication: La Stampa

Normally, if a US President were to land in China in the midst of the longest visit to Asia by any American president for 25 years, it would be a demonstration...

25.10.17 Publication: La Stampa

So we now know that President Xi Jinping is considered the most important, and thus most powerful, Chinese leader since the “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong,...

04.10.17 Publication: La Stampa

Every time North Korea tests a nuclear weapon or missile, the question hangs in the mind: why are they doing this? Is it just to deter any potential attacker?...

04.10.17 Publication: La Stampa

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29.07.17 Publication: La Stampa

General de Gaulle: a tall, proud,  somewhat pompous nationalist who sees himself as being free to take his own initiatives. Such a stance is admirable in its...

12.06.17 Publication: La Stampa

Following President Trump’s first visit to Europe, the Western alliance looks frayed and fragile. Not only has the leading country of the West elected a...

12.04.17 Publication: La Stampa

With less than two weeks to go before the first round of France’s presidential election, financial markets are waking up to a new potential nightmare. Having...

09.11.16 Publication: La Stampa

President Vladimir Putin must be a happy man: in January he will have  America’s version of Silvio Berlusconi as his counterpart in the White House. He had...