Oct 13th 2011 By Bagehot IN THIS week’s print column, I look at big changes underway in the most sensitive area of immigration policy: the […]
Just what Britain’s cash-strapped military did not need: a minister mired in bizarre allegations about a dodgy friend
Oct 10th 2011 By Bagehot WHEN a doctor starts talking like a lawyer, it is rarely good news. Today, it was the turn of doctor-turned-politician […]
Why a Conservative-led British government is backing euro-zone integration
Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the unusual spectacle of British Conservative leaders urging euro-zone neighbours on to much […]
Putting politics into policing
Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot ONE last posting about the Conservative Party conference. Little-noticed amid all the hullaballoo about European human rights law (and whether […]
David Cameron tells the British they are not angry, they are pessimistic
By Bagehot A WEEK ago the Labour leader Ed Miliband used his annual conference speech to place a big bet on the anger of the […]
A mystery cat saves the Tory Party from being the nasty party
Oct 4th 2011 By Bagehot IT WAS the cat that saved the Conservatives from being the nasty party today. The party is on day three […]
Britain’s ruling party gathers under the watchful eye of the bond markets
Oct 3rd 2011 By Bagehot SO WHERE, exactly, are these ideological axe-men who supposedly infest the Conservative Party? Throughout this conference season, Bagehot has heard […]
Is Brussels really about to force Britain to admit benefit tourists?
Sep 30th 2011 By Bagehot IT IS getting harder and harder to be a pragmatic liberal. Call it recession politics, call it a function of […]
A big scary opponent for the government
By Bagehot BACK at the start of this year’s autumn conference season, about a hundred years ago or possibly last week, I arrived at a […]
Ed Miliband, an old-fashioned German social democrat
Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I look at Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and suggest that his big idea […]