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Thursday 8 January 2009

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Business

Sell Madrid, buy Berlin

They see the choice not as between investing in Spain or in Switzerland but between, say, pharmaceuticals and retail.

Restoring the Taj is just part of Tata’s challenge

Richard Orange says rebuilding the terrorist-hit Mumbai hotel will be an easier task than steering Jaguar Land Rover and the steel group Corus through a deep recession

City Life

Corruption is the hot election issue, but the biggest fish are yet to be fried

Lessons for life from the Crash of ’73

David Young, who later served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet and as chairman of Cable & Wireless, recalls his struggle for survival as an up-and-coming entrepreneur

An idea whose time has come

Janice Warman says ventures that address social problems rather than chasing profits can thrive in a recession

Arts

Question time

Slumdog Millionaire
15, Nationwide

Crowd pleaser

Cecilia Bartoli
Barbican

Turandot
Royal Opera House

Books

Not so fantastic

The Natural History of Unicorns, by Chris Lavers

Getting the detail right

Evelyn Waugh told Nancy Mitford he was ‘surprised to find’ that Proust ‘was a mental defective. He has absolutely no sense of time.’

Style & Travel

Not just for Christmas

Matthew Dennison extols the virtues of a rare but distinguished breed

Latin lover

Colombia has Clemency Burton-Hill weak at the knees

The natural order of things

Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts

Matt Ridley