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Global View is a new newsletter by me, Bill Emmott, former editor in chief of The Economist, about what interests and provokes me in global affairs, with a special emphasis on Japan and Italy. I particularly enjoy trying to explain events and trends in those two fascinating by enigmatic countries to myself, and thus to readers. Yet I also can’t resist trying to analyse broader trends in the world, especially in Asia, Europe and the US, and occasionally blowing off steam about them (hopefully in a measured and even polite way, of course).

As to my special emphases I have been writing about and regularly visiting Japan for the past 37 years since I was posted there by The Economist; I have been writing about and regularly visiting Italy for roughly the past 20 years, ever since a confrontation between The Economist, me and Silvio Berlusconi in 2001 (the then Italian prime minister called us “the E-Communist” and pointed out that I look like Lenin) turned me from an outside observer into an addict. These days I live in Ireland as a kind of “Brexile”, escaping from the craziness of Brexit, so I have become interested in everything about the island of Ireland too.

For the time being I will be writing articles here when inspiration strikes or time provides, but later this spring I will start to write a weekly post, distributed every Monday, which will go only to subscribers to Global View. In addition, I write regular columns for two Japanese publications (the Mainichi Shimbun and Nikkei Business), two Italian papers (La Stampa and Avanti!) and blogs for the Japan Society of the UK: subscribers will be able to read the English originals of all those articles here in Global View. I will post other writings whenever I can, including some excerpts from my latest book, “Japan’s Far More Female Future” (OUP, 2020) and some reprises from my 2017 book, “The Fate of the West”.

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Bill Emmott

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Writer, ex-editor of @theeconomist, chair @iiss_org, @japansocietylon, @TLRHub, co-director @gcppporg, author "Japan's Far More Female Future" (OUP Sept 2020)