Nov 24th 2011 By Bagehot ED MILIBAND, leader of the opposition Labour Party, gave a very bad speech about Britain’s economic situation today. It was so bad, indeed so self-defeatingly…

Nov 21st 2011 By Bagehot ARE members of the House of Commons elected purely as individuals on their personal merits, or as the interchangeable representatives of a political party? The…

Nov 21st 2011 By Bagehot THE landslide victory of the centre-right Partido Popular in Spain has raised hopes on the British right that perhaps David Cameron may have gained an…

Nov 20th 2011 By Bagehot BACK in my days writing the Charlemagne column and blog, I very occasionally had to ask a small minority of readers to avoid personal abuse…

Nov 18th 2011 By Bagehot AS promised/threatened earlier, a quick update on the joint press conference in Berlin between David Cameron and Angela Merkel. According to wire reports from Berlin…

Nov 18th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I look at the political implications of Britain’s rising youth unemployment: Reuse this content Read More

By Bagehot THE DAILY Mail carries a cartoon of Angela Merkel this morning sporting a Hitler moustache, jackboots, riding breeches and doing the Nazi salute. It is all a terrific…

Nov 16th 2011 By Bagehot SNATCHING a brief break from all things European, Bagehot has been looking at youth unemployment this week (it will be the subject of my print…

Nov 14th 2011 By Bagehot CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, from a Britain at the heart of EU decision-making. That was the new tone on Europe from David Cameron this evening, as he…

Nov 10th 2011 By Bagehot I WAS determined to avoid writing about the Europe this week: there is a lot of it about in other sections of the paper, and…