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China’s next challenge

15th December 2009 Elliot Wilson

How times change. A decade ago, Beijing’s body politic was still recovering from the lingering after-effects of the Tiananmen Square massacre of peaceable students. Still two years shy of joining…

Will Kraft’s plastic cheese smother Cadbury’s heritage?

18th November 2009 Elliot Wilson

When consumer goods giant Kraft tabled a £10.2 billion bid for Cadbury two weeks ago, the outcry was immediate and heartfelt. Here was an American monster buying an iconic British…

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,…