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Keep on digging: Boris’s route to recovery

28th October 2009 Elliot Wilson

No major city anywhere has achieved as much as London has with such poor public transport at its disposal. Trams that break down; bendy buses that burst into flames; an…

City Life

2nd September 2009 Elliot Wilson

There’s a degree of natural justice in the fact that Fidel Castro had to cede power to his brother Raúl last year because of serious gastro-intestinal problems. Put bluntly, after…

The nuclear power-dresser

22nd July 2009 Elliot Wilson

Barbara Judge is an extraordinary human being, particularly for those of us who struggle to iron a shirt. Apart from her flawless grooming — in a power suit with a…

One day, the kharbouza will be mightier than the Kalashnikov

3rd June 2009 Elliot Wilson

Modern-day Afghanistan conjures up many fearsome images, from rocket-launchers and retreating Soviet tanks to mujahedin warriors and Taleban zealots. Yet this war-ravaged central Asian state, which has to date repelled…

China in crisis

8th April 2009 Elliot Wilson

Lu Guoyang thinks, hawks and spits into a small tin cup. His lop-sided eyebrows, half-concealed under a mop of unruly hair, wobble furiously as he speaks. ‘I’ve been home once…

I’ve seen the future – on a beach in Thailand

13th March 2009 Elliot Wilson

Chris Craker has forgotten more about the music industry than most of us will ever know. This classically trained clarinetist from Kent has rubbed shoulders with and produced albums for…

Mixed messages and more nasty shocks

13th January 2009 Elliot Wilson

In recent years the ‘market outlook’ story setting out economic and financial parameters for the coming year has been the journalistic equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. Watch out…

Let India 2.0 rise from the ashes of Bombay

29th December 2008 Elliot Wilson

If there is any good to come out of November’s bloody terror attacks in Bombay, it can be found not on the city’s angry streets, nor in the Lok Sabha,…

India’s road to nowhere

2nd December 2008 Elliot Wilson

Earlier this year, the New Delhi-based Times of India ran a pair of noteworthy stories above the front-page fold. The first, a regular line of thought in India’s stridently nationalist…

A new job for the IMF: as global policeman

26th November 2008 Elliot Wilson

In early November the head of the world’s leading multilateral agency made a remarkable public bid for survival. Speaking in São Paulo, addressing the world’s most powerful finance ministers, Dominique…