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 […]
British Euroscepticism enjoys a cheap night out
Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot WEDNESDAY is a late night at the Economist as articles enter the weekly editing process. Unusually though, last night my […]
Ed Miliband blows his big chance to explain what he wants for Britain
Sep 27th 2011 By Bagehot ED MILIBAND, the man with the second-best chance of being prime minister of Britain after 2015, this afternoon declared that […]
Labour flatters the coalition, but only to deceive
Sep 26th 2011 By Bagehot (A) BRITAIN is a helpless cork, bobbing about on an ocean whipped by economic storms beyond the control of any […]
The cheery gloom of the Liberal Democrats
Sep 22nd 2011 By Bagehot HERE is my print column this week, looking back at the rather odd mood at the Liberal Democrats’ annual conference: […]
Nick Clegg asks voters for permission to be heard
Sep 21st 2011 By Bagehot THE leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, closed the party conference this afternoon with a speech that posed more […]
Britain’s plague of young politicians
By Bagehot SEND for the greybeards. At the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham this week, the biggest buzz has—rather unexpectedly—been around a trio of snowy-haired […]
The real reason for the Liberal Democrats’ odd cheeriness: Ed Miliband is doing worse
Sep 19th 2011 By Bagehot ARRIVING at the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference in Birmingham on Sunday, the first thing your blogger saw as he […]
British Conservatives plan for the collapse of the euro
Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the excitement among British Conservatives, as they prepare for what many see as […]