Bill Emmott

Business history is full of executives going rogue with corporate funds.

When will the world have vaccinated 80 percent of all adults (the level presumed by scientists to produce herd immunity against Covid-19)? Most people’s answer is 2023 or 2024, which suggests deep pessimism about the progress of vaccinations outside the rich world.

With the global Covid-19 crisis quickly escalating, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had to accept a hard truth, rightly taking

Is populism still on the rise? That question will be looming over elections in Israel, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Spain, and the European Union over the next two months. Yet it will be misplaced, for the real contest is between nationalism and internationalism.

The world will soon witness a historic test of wills between China and the United States, two superpowers whose leaders see themselves as supreme.

Most pundits agree that the least bad way to deal with North Korea's nuclear sabre rattling is a continued combination of tight containment and aggressive diplomacy. Fewer, however, have recognised that the least bad military option is a Chinese invasion, or regime change forced through China's threat to launch one.

We live in a politically turbulent age. Parties barely a year old have recently swept to power in France and in the huge metropolitan area of Tokyo.

The new fault line in politics, according to Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front, is between globalists and patriots.