Bigger abroadForget the Oscars. Films need foreign viewers, not American prizes THE film-awards season, which reaches its tearful climax with the Oscars next week, has long been only loosely related to the film business. Hollywood is dedicated to the art of funnelling teenagers past popcorn stands, not art itself. But this year's awards are less relevant than ever. The true worth of a film is no l
The wind that will not subsideHearing Egyptian echoes, China’s autocrats cling to the hope that they are different THE speed with which popular protest swept aside long-lasting authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and then Egypt was enough to unnerve autocrats everywhere. In Asia they have watched the tide of heightened democratic aspiration wash across the Middle East and wondered how far it would go
Blazing platformsIt is not just the world’s biggest handset-maker that has lost its edge. So has Europe’s whole mobile-phone industry APOCALYPTIC language fuels the technology industry as much as venture capital does. But Stephen Elop, Nokia's new boss, may have set a new standard. “We are standing on a burning [oil] platform,” he wrote in a memo to all 132,000 employees of the world's biggest han
Bold, or plain reckless?A beleaguered prime minister takes a big gamble on economic reforms “JAPANESE prime ministers are just like tissue paper,” says Yuriko Koike, a senior member of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), plucking a tissue from a box as if to throw it in the bin. Her cold disdain sums up the mood of her party. Since the start of the year, the LDP has said it will focus o
The battle of Cairo is over, or is it?Another battle may be needed, soon, before Hosni Mubarak falls for good I KNEW it was truly over when I came home to find a neighbour in a panic. He had smelled a fire nearby. We traced its source soon enough, after climbing to the roof of my building. Smoke drifted from the garden of the villa next door, where workers had recently been digging a peculiarly de
APART from being famous and influential, Hu Jintao, David Cameron, Warren Buffett and Dominique Strauss-Kahn do not obviously have a lot in common. So it tells you something about the breadth of global concerns about inequality that China's president, Britain's prime minister, America's second-richest man and the head of the International Monetary Fund have all worried, loudly and publicly, about
Toyota's boss seeks inspiration from rice ballsIn day 3 of his Detroit motor show diary, our correspondent hears the Japanese carmaker's boss finally admit that recovering from the "damage" to its image will be a challenge By The Economist online | DETROIT IT WAS a trip into the proverbial lion's den when Akio Toyoda, the boss of Toyota and heir to the Japanese carmaker's founding family, paid his
Are words to blame?The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman from Arizona, has sparked a fiery debate about the dangers of heated political rhetoric By The Economist online The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman from Arizona, has sparked a fiery debate about the dangers of heated political rhetoric THE motive for the bloodthirsty attack on Gabri
The crucible of printBritain’s embattled newspapers are leading the world in innovation BY MOST conventional measures, Britain's newspapers look doomed. Young readers are abandoning them for the internet and television. The Daily Express and the Daily Mirror, both tabloids, have shed about two-thirds of their circulation since the mid-1980s. Yet Evgeny Lebedev, co-owner of the Independent and the
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. By Evgeny Morozov. PublicAffairs; 408 pages; $27.95. Published in Britain by Allen Lane as “The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World”; £14.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN thousands of young Iranians took to the streets in June 2009 to protest against the apparent rigging of the presidential election, much of the coverage in the
Please, not againWithout boldness from Barack Obama there is a real risk of war in the Middle East NO WAR, no peace, is the usual state of affairs between Israel and its neighbours in the Middle East. But every time an attempt at Arab-Israeli peacemaking fails, as Barack Obama's did shortly before Christmas, the peace becomes a little more fragile and the danger of war increases. Sadly, there is r
Love at first byteOnline-dating sites have made it easier for people to click with one another. But they still leave something to be desired FOR the lovelorn, the new year can be an unhappy time, as they cast envious glances in the direction of lovey-dovey couples at the season's parties. For online-dating agencies, it is a golden opportunity, as people who have spent the holidays ruminating over
China's king of e-commerceJack Ma knows as much as anyone about how China’s middle class spends its money. What will he do with this information? Correction to this article A DOZEN big screens hang on the wall. Maps flash. Numbers stream by. The Alibaba Group's “live data monitoring room” offers a snapshot of frantic activity: Chinese firms trading with foreign ones; Chinese individuals buying clo
Pushing backAs China’s prime minister visits India, the host’s attitude towards its bigger neighbour is hardening COUNT the ways in which India's handling of China is quietly growing firmer. Relations have been bad for years, with the two countries glaring at each other over a long, disputed border. But India, which in the past has mostly sought to placate its more powerful neighbour, is now stiff
English as she was spokeThe days of English as the world’s second language may (slowly) be ending The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. By Nicholas Ostler. Walker & Company; 368 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ENGLISH is the most successful language in the history of the world. It is spoken on every continent, is learnt as a second language by sc
ON THE evening before All Saints' Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an account of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds
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