British Euroscepticism enjoys a cheap night out

By Bagehot

WEDNESDAY is a late night at the Economist as articles enter the weekly editing process. Unusually though, last night my cycle ride home got me back for BBC Newsnight, just in time to watch Peter Oborne, a Daily Telegraph columnist and prominent Eurosceptic, repeatedly call a European Commission spokesman “that idiot in Brussels”, finally provoking the spokesman to walk out.

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