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MI6 in the frame
The foreign intelligence service has come a long way, but it is debatable whether the public can be won over by a private gallery show of paintings
Pirates of the Gulf
Somali piracy can be solved only on land. That will take time, and greater international backing for any putative government that emerges from ongoing peace efforts
Another harmless G20 meeting
As for solving the world’s economic challenges, we should expect little from the G20 if this week’s meeting of finance ministers is anything to go by
Bahrain gets tough
The crackdown by security forces on protesters in Bahrain’s capital followed by the military’s takeover of the streets is the sort of treatment that risks making revolutionaries out of reformists
Regulating finance
Why is the government focusing heavily on restructuring regulation in its proposals? The answer is that it can blame the structure and so the crisis on Gordon Brown. The light shines there
Obama’s favourite investments
The US administration’s view on infrastructure and innovation makes sense, but the execution is poor – and not just because it will get little help from Congress
ECB leadership and Germany
Europe’s central bank has demonstrated its ability to give Germany the stability it desires. Germany can be confident that it will continue to do so in the years ahead
Singh a song of disappointment
The prime minister and his colleagues should be feeling uncomfortable. India’s telecoms licences have illuminated a far bigger scandal: a nation’s future is being squandered through a lack of political will
The difficulties of Mervyn King
For the short term, the Bank of England is justified in its claims that the inflation overshoot can largely be put down to tax increases, energy costs and the fall in sterling
Rules for the banks
It is obvious that the United Kingdom’s global banks have everything to gain from more uniform European rules rather than a retreat from a single financial market
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