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    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewEconomics books
      Martin Wolf shines a light on the doom loop of democratic capitalism

      The economics commentator appeals for a renewed concept of citizenship to save democracy

    • Monday, 20 December, 2021
      Mario Draghi
      Draghi can serve Italy best by becoming its next president

      The national priority is to ensure the reforms he has begun as prime minister do not fizzle out

    • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
      FT Books Essay
      Shutdown and Aftershocks — Covid and the new world order

      Two books bring insights into the radical political ruptures wrought by the pandemic

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      Coronavirus pandemic
      How to build global resilience in the pandemic aftermath

      Rich nations have an opportunity to reset and create a more equal, shockproof world

    • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Lionel Barber’s chronicle of his time as FT editor

      The Powerful and the Damned gives an up-close view of the challenges of editing in our age of disruption

    • Monday, 12 August, 2019
      Matteo Salvini
      Italians wait for the real Matteo Salvini to reveal himself

      An election would force him to think about policy rather than self-promotion

    • Tuesday, 29 May, 2018
      Italian politics
      Driving Italy out of the euro makes no sense at all

      Another election should focus on economic stagnation, not the currency issue

    • Tuesday, 29 May, 2018
      World
      Optimism on life after Brexit based on wilful blindness

      From Bill Emmott, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK — The most read letter for a second week

    • Thursday, 8 February, 2018
      Italian politics
      Five Star struggles to be Italy’s agent of change

      The party lacks any cohesive team that looks like a credible government in waiting

    • Friday, 9 June, 2017
      Brexit
      Celebrate loyalty in politics giving way to honesty

      Electoral volatility is chiefly the legacy of the global financial crisis

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
      Brexit
      The Tories’ Brexit centrepiece is an election campaign mis-step

      British voters care about the health service and immigration over Europe

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Literary Life: It is time for a new liberal lexicon

      Forget ‘globalisation’, says Bill Emmott — we should be making the case for openness and equality instead

    • Friday, 20 January, 2017
      US healthcare reform
      How Donald Trump can really make America great again

      To turn rhetoric into action, the US president will need to think longer term

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2016
      Italian politics
      The real threat to Matteo Renzi is Beppe Grillo and his ilk

      An electoral law, not part of Sunday’s Italy referendum, could let in the populists

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2016
      Fund management
      BBC licence payers deserve a strong, independent regulator

      Ofcom looks unfit to protect editorial standards

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2016
      Italian politics
      Renzi, the rottamatore of Italy, risks being left behind

      Italians see little evidence of transformation in their daily lives, writes Bill Emmott

    • Thursday, 27 August, 2015
      Chinese politics & policy
      We should worry about China’s politics not the economics

      In all the noise and debate, the stock market crash raises three big questions

    • Monday, 27 July, 2015
      Corporate governance
      FT and Nikkei differences need not cause a clash

      The Japanese group’s values are about giving readers what they want and expect

    • Tuesday, 21 July, 2015
      German politics
      Europe’s confused attitude to German leadership

      Eurozone is happy to back Berlin when it is wrong and resist it when it is right

    • Monday, 6 July, 2015
      EU economy
      Time for euro creditors to reward their allies over Greece

      The other eurozone members have shown surprising solidarity in the crisis

    • Monday, 1 June, 2015
      EU energy
      Renzi has to show that he really does stand for change

      There may be a modest return to growth, but Italians have not yet noticed, writes Bill Emmott

    • Friday, 24 April, 2015
      Life & Arts
      The Conservative-Lib Dem coalition and its legacy

      Few pundits foresaw the coalition that has governed the UK for the past five years. Will it have a lasting impact? By Bill Emmott

    • Monday, 9 February, 2015
      EU economy
      Greek negotiators should learn a little from Britain

      The premiers must frame demands so reforms can benefit other countries too, writes Bill Emmott

    • Monday, 12 January, 2015
      Global Economy
      Japan puts secular stagnation thesis to the test

      This year we will see if wages rise, sustainably, as the labour shortage bites, prompting companies also at last to invest in productivity-boosting innovation, writes Bill Emmott

    • Friday, 23 November, 2012
      Life & Arts
      The Diary: Bill Emmott

      The journalist on his documentary film about Italy, the country’s youngest wannabe prime minister, and the connection between Silvio Berlusconi and Jimmy Savile

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