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Business

Emperor Soros’s new clothes

Matthew Lynn says hedge-fund pioneer and currency speculator George Soros is still a brilliant player of markets — but as a philosopher, frankly, he’s incomprehensible

Any Other Business

These days, Vesco the fugitive fraudster would have had a top job on Wall Street

Microsoft’s Yahoo bid ends well — for Google

David Crow says personal animosities played a major part in the failed merger of Microsoft and Yahoo — to the benefit of their most potent online competitor

City Life

Clear blue skies and shiny shopping malls, but Mao’s corpulent corpse still presides

Say farewell to gentlemanly capitalism

Tony Curzon Price foresees a new era in which finance will be as tightly regulated as pharmaceuticals

Arts

Spiritual heaven

Peter Phillips on the English choral tradition

Moving and magical

Roberto Alagna
Barbican

Simon Boccanegra
Royal Opera House

The Merry Widow
Coliseum

Books

But what about justice, fairness and honesty?

Alan Judd reads James Griffin's account of human rights

Style & Travel

What's in a name?

Quite a lot, says Matthew Dennison — and it’s not all good

Sacred heights

Simon Courtauld pays homage to one of the world’s great sights

Meet James Purnell: the best hope Labour has of avoiding disaster

Fraser Nelson says that the 38-year-old Work and Pensions Secretary is the best candidate to succeed Gordon Brown. Already surging ahead at his department, he has the gift of sounding like an ordinary human being — and he understands the Cameron Conservative party

Fraser Nelson

I never want to be as insecure as Olivier

Tim Walker talks to Greta Scacchi about her new role in The Deep Blue Sea, the gaucheness of Bill Murray — and being offered the lead in Basic Instinct

Tim Walker

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