Commentary / World Oct 21, 2020
A miserable 21st century: Poor America
What the U.S. is suffering from now, in acute form and in almost all its limbs and organs, is what great world powers throughout history have at some stage endured.
David Howell
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Commentary / Japan Sep 21, 2020
Japan-U.K. trade deal: Cheer amidst the gloom
It could be that the golden era of U.K. relations with China is set to be replaced by a golden era of relations with Japan.
Commentary / World Aug 26, 2020
The never-ending negotiation
Even with a broad agreement, EU-U.K. talks will go on and on — but that is only natural.
Commentary / World Aug 18, 2020
Keeping the United Kingdom united
As the U.K. fights its way out of the COVID-19 lockdown, and at the same time stumbles toward the its exit from the EU, a new preoccupation takes hold.
Commentary / World Jul 31, 2020
Is an old political dream coming true at last?
A new kind of egalitarianism is pushing its way to the center of the global stage.
Commentary / World Jul 17, 2020
A new way of thinking about foreign aid
Throughout the developing world there is a new mood of both pride and hope. Aid from the rich North is beginning to feel patronizing.
Commentary / Japan Jun 30, 2020
Why Five Eyes should now become six
Japan should become a full member of the intelligence alliance
Commentary / World May 31, 2020
Back to too much oil?
If swelling production keeps outpacing recovering consumption, we will be returning to the pre-1970 world of cheap oil.
Commentary / World May 12, 2020
Are the Keynesians back?
The current rescue through cascades of public spending may look like Keynesianism, but in fact it is little more than practical common sense in an utterly changed social and economic order.
Commentary / World Apr 28, 2020
How lockdown could lead to stronger parliaments
Parliamentary democracies need parliaments to function. This is as true of the Westminster institution in London, sometimes described as the mother of parliaments, as it is of the Diet in Tokyo or of any other parliamentary legislatures in states round the world that struggle ...