Mar 21st 2012 By Bagehot NOBODY was quite running a book, but your blogger can report that there was keen speculation last night on the House of Commons terrace about…

Mar 20th 2012 By Bagehot IN NORTH America, politicians on the right like to talk about the salutary effects of „tax rage“, by which they mean the useful anger felt…

By Bagehot SOME years ago, struck by an appeal from the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, for European Union policies to ensure that Europe could “continue to build aeroplanes, boats, trains…

Mar 15th 2012 By Bagehot DAY three of David Cameron’s visit to America, and we are in New York. Here is my print column, in which I ponder the state…

Mar 15th 2012 By Bagehot IF VLADIMIR Putin’s ears have been burning in the last 24 hours, the cause is straightforward. The situation in Syria has been high on the…

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Mar 13th 2012 By Bagehot BAGEHOT is in America, as a member of the press pack accompanying David Cameron to Washington DC for an official visit. On such occasions, tradition…

Mar 8th 2012 By Bagehot UNUSUALLY, my column this week is an obituary. It remembers a former Economist journalist, academic and Conservative cabinet minister Norman St John-Stevas, who devoted 20…

Mar 5th 2012 By Bagehot FAR from the watchful press pack in Westminster, Nick Clegg gave a strikingly left-wing speech at the Liberal Democrats Welsh conference on March 3rd. Sophisticated…

Mar 1st 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week reports on intensive efforts underway within the Conservative Party to understand Britain’s black and Asian electors better, and to learn…