HeyJaredBill Emmott's Global View
Analysis and commentary on world events, current affairs and ideas from a former editor-in-chief of The Economist with a special addiction to Japan and Italy
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The great Meloni muddle (opens the original)
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Here is a tip from an Italian politics nerd: when you read stories about how today (September 4th) Giorgia Meloni has set some sort of record through the 1,412 day duration of her government, look carefully for a word like “continuously”. If it is present, then it means that the author realises that today’s landmark means less than meets the eye, whatever Italy’s prime minister might like you to think. If it is absent, then it means that the author might have been fooled into thinking that Melon
Time to start preparing for a post-Putin Russia (opens the original)
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One lesson from the history of the Soviet Union is that dictatorships can last a very long time even if their economic basis is weak. But another is that the collapse of a dictatorship can eventually come unexpectedly, for a regime which controls the military, the police and the media is also one that seeks to prevent signs of dissent or other divisions from becoming visible. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is the modern descendant of the Soviet Union and the same lessons have applied to his country eve
Sanae Takaichi's backward-looking vision (opens the original)
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In mid-July I had the good fortune to spend a week in Tokyo, taking part in an event organised by the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), another organised by Tokyo College at University of Tokyo, and a third by Asia Society Japan, consisting of a lunchtime conversation with my old friend Jesper Koll
A victory for free speech in and about America (opens the original)
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Petty and vindictive. Such was the ban on travel to the United States handed out by the State Department on December 23rd last year to five Europeans, one of whom was Clare Melford, chief executive of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a non-profit whose board I chair. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, accused Clare, former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and three other civil society organis
Welcome to Number 10, Mr Burnham (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham, the energetic former mayor of Britain’s second most important city, Manchester, will know three important things when he visits Buckingham Palace today to be confirmed by King Charles as Britain’s latest revolving-door prime minister. He will know that to do better than his dull predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer, he will have to be a master communicator giving the impression that he has a clear plan for government, even if he hasn’t worked one out yet. He will know that he no longer ne
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