May 4th 2018 By BAGEHOT THIS was a bad night for Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s hard-left leader. It would be too much to say that the wheels have come off the…

Apr 30th 2018 By BAGEHOT IN THIS week’s Bagehot column I ventured that Amber Rudd, Britain’s home secretary, was probably not fatally wounded by recent events, “unless there is another…

Mar 21st 2018 By BAGEHOT T.H. MARSHALL, one of the founders of modern economics, and one of the most brilliant analysts of the economics of place, argued that “there was…

Mar 16th 2018 By BAGEHOT ONE of the most popular interpretations of modern politics is that it is increasingly defined by the difference between open and closed rather than left…

Jan 8th 2018 By BAGEHOT TODAY’S Cabinet reshuffle was billed as a golden opportunity for Theresa May to achieve two things: stamp her authority on the Conservative Party after the…

Dec 21st 2017 By BAGEHOT AT THE last prime minister’s questions of the year, on December 20th, Damian Green loyally sat on Theresa May’s right and bellowed his support at…

Oct 3rd 2017 By BAGEHOT | MANCHESTER BRITAIN is suffering from a very un-British affliction at the moment: millenarianism. A country that has always prided itself on its support for…

Oct 2nd 2017 By BAGEHOT | MANCHESTER IF I had to sum up the Labour Party conference in Brighton last week in a single word, it would be “frightening”. A…

By BAGEHOT | BRIGHTON PAUL MASON, a journalist turned Labour Party activist, was very much in evidence at the Labour conference in Brighton this week, competing with the Guardian’s Owen…

By BAGEHOT | BRIGHTON I VENTURED into Momentum’s “A World Transformed” jamboree—a sort of parallel conference running alongside the main Labour Party conference—with some nervousness. Momentum has a reputation for…