Dec 12th 2011 By Bagehot NOBODY mentioned the Titanic, at least not when I was listening from the press gallery of the House of Commons. Your blogger headed to Parliament…

Dec 11th 2011 By Bagehot COULD David Cameron have done anything different at Thursday night’s EU summit, when he refused to sign Britain up to new EU treaty rules overseeing…

Dec 9th 2011 By Bagehot CLAIMS and counter-claims are flying as British officials and European diplomats squabble over who, exactly, was being unreasonable last night when David Cameron refused to…

Dec 9th 2011 By Bagehot BRITAIN did not walk out of the EU last night. But let there be no doubt about it: we have started falling out. Reuse this…

Dec 8th 2011 By Bagehot BEFORE a fresh tidal wave of Euro-news breaks over us all, this week’s print column looks at religion (and specifically the Anglican faith) in austerity…

Dec 6th 2011 By Bagehot FOUR months after the summer riots that struck London and towns across England, researchers from the Guardian newspaper and the London School of Economics have…

Dec 4th 2011 By Bagehot THE weekend papers are full of angry quotes from British Conservatives, appalled by the idea that British voters might be denied a referendum on a…

By Bagehot IT IS becoming clear that British diplomats had a very close shave in Iran when student members of a regime-controlled volunteer militia, the baseej, stormed two British Embassy…

By Bagehot DAVID Cameron will visit Paris tomorrow for a tense bilateral meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy. Senior officials expect the French president to ask the British prime minister a blunt…

By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I report on the intense pressure David Cameron is under from close allies, Conservative MPs and right-of-centre think tanks to go all-out…