Jindřich Šídlo
Jindřich Šídlo is a Czech journalist (b. 1972.) and editor for the national pages of Hospodářské noviny. In the 1990s he worked as an editor at the weekly Respekt and from 2001-2005 was a member of the Mladá Fronta DNES editorial board, before joining Hospodářské noviny. From 2009 to 2011 he ran national news coverage on Czech public television.
Updated: 19 December 2011
The partial ban on sales of spirits after 26 deaths due to methanol poisoning is likely to end soon. But in a country where liberties can often lead to carelessness, keeping some sort of ban in place may be worth thinking about, argues a columnist. 
The former Czech president did not seek power for power’s sake, but became indispensable during the next twenty-two years of his country’s post-communist development. A tribute from Prague daily Hospodářské noviny after his death on December 18th.