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  • 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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