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January 2009
‘George Soros has won the first few rounds, so must I now eat my words?’
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January 2009
‘In his decade as president, Chávez has parlayed socioeconomic resentment into near-invincibility. But Venezuela's decay, and the chinks in his armour, are there for all to see’

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December 2008
Little Dorrit's uncanny similarities to today's financial crisis makes it more suitable for adaptation than much of modern literature
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December 2008
The year the contemporary art juggernaut ground to a halt
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