globalisation
High life
New York Alexandra rang me from London to enquire about a man by the name of Klaus Schwab: ‘He sounds…
The Covid trap
Will we ever go back to how we were?
World of difference
What will post-coronavirus economies and societies look like?
High life
Gstaad Rumours about the virus are flying around this village. First there was talk of a hotel being temporarily…
History is made from ideas — but are ideas becoming history?
Wallace Stevens called it ‘the necessary angel’. Ted Hughes thought it ‘the most essential bit of machinery we have if…
Could my slogan have swayed the Brexit vote?
People sometimes ask what slogan could have swayed the Brexit vote: the opposite of the touchstone phrase ‘Take back control’.…
The new normal
What was your favourite response from the liberals to Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election? Actress Emma Watson…
The Clintons made Trump
And that’s why I’ll never vote for Hillary
Going global
We can all identify decades in which the world moved forward. Wars are not entirely negative experiences: the social and…
Where have all the leaders gone?
No one wants to pay the price of speaking for the free world
