Our Best Reads of the Week

Happy new year! It's the Year of the Ox, a hard-working, persevering animal, and spring is just around the corner. This week we meet an investor famed for her consistency in picking winners, a youthful entrepreneur who expects a sea change in investing and imagine a life without Google.

Read about the brief blossoming of free speech in China, gulp at the eye-watering profits made at hedge funds and roll your eyes at yet another side effect of Covid-19. We check out the battle for 6G dominance and Hong Kong's questionable plans for development in its last frontier, while discovering the whereabouts of the elusive Jack Ma. And as you hopefully celebrate the start of a new lunar year, maybe try out one of our recipes and wash things down with a pink prosecco. —Adrian Kennedy