Skip To Main Content
Isabel Hilton on Muck Rack

Isabel Hilton

London
As seen in: Prospect Magazine, MSN, MSN Ireland, MSN UK, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Telegraph, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia and
Covers:  Geo-politics, climate change, China, environment
Doesn't Cover: football or any other sport
Contributing Editor,Prospect. Founder China Dialogue Trust. Visiting prof KCL. I follow China, climate change geopolitics. The usual disclaimers apply.

Get in touch with Isabel

Contact Isabel, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Isabel Hilton’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Graduated Hons MA in Chinese from Edinburgh University; postgrad study in Beijing and Shanghai. Worked as programme editor for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, then reporter at Scottish Television; joined the Sunday Times reporting from Latin America, Europe; joined The Independent at start-up as Latin America editor, subsequently Europe editor and Chief Feature Writer; left to write a book, presented the World Tonight (BBC) and Night Waves; reported several radio and TV documentari…

Isabel Hilton’s Journalist Portfolio

At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong - from patriotic idealism to disillusionment

At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong - from patriotic idealism to disillusionment

A family history that exposes China's authoritarian regime and an era of repression

View article →
Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review - the women who tried to carve a path in a new China

Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review - the women who tried to carve a path in a new China

In this intimate study of a period of upheaval, a Chinese-born writer uncovers the stories of four young citi…

View article →
Traces of war

Traces of war

From Chernobyl to Odesa Oblast, Ukrainians are gathering evidence of what they say are Russian war crimes-not…

View article →
Is the west ready for Chinese EVs?

Is the west ready for Chinese EVs?

Once world-leading, German cars are being overtaken by hyper-connected electric models made in China. Cyberse…

View article →
How mighty economies fall

How mighty economies fall

Argentina's presidential front-runner Javier Milei wants to swap the peso for the US dollar and dismantle the…

View article →

Articles

The true cost of Britain’s bad deals

|
By Isabel Hilton
| Prospect Magazine Verified
For the Conservatives and those to their right, collectively responsible both for years of cuts to the defence establishment and the damage Brexit has done to the UK economy, the source of funds needed to shore up the UK’s flagging defences is obvious: cut welfare and abandon net zero. For Labour, the first option is politically impossible.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Putin’s Siberia pipeline isn’t a done deal

|
By Isabel Hilton
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin’s visits to Beijing have had two regular features: ever more extravagant claims to limitless friendship between China and Russia, and the message, always sent by Russian delegations in advance, that the meeting will produce an agreement on the construction of Power of Siberia 2, a proposed 2600km pipeline that would bring gas from the Yamal Peninsula on Russia’s Arctic coast to Shanghai.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Trump’s China visit will expose America’s weakness

|
By Isabel Hilton
| Prospect Magazine Verified
There was a time, roughly between Nixon and Biden, when meetings between the Chinese and the US heads of state had some predictable elements: China would remind the United States of its eternal claim to Taiwan; the US would rebuke China for its human rights abuses; in the background, business leaders on both sides would strike deals.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 203 licensed articles (278 Total)