By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at a huge shake-up of Britain’s parliamentary map that is currently underway, and the degree to which this boundary review is causing…

By Bagehot FOR this week’s print edition, a colleague from our economics team did some number crunching around Britain’s exposure to the troubled euro-zone periphery. His sobering finding: add up…

Nov 3rd 2011 By Bagehot THE DARK, thunderous skies over Westminster tonight seem all too appropriate. The storm in the euro zone is reaching new heights, and here in Britain…

Nov 1st 2011 By Bagehot BAGEHOT is overseas just now, researching a column on foreign policy. But checking the headlines from home I felt a keen pang of homesickness when…

By Bagehot A FEW years ago, a fascinating exhibition was mounted of old British newspaper cartoons relating to the country’s ties with Europe. The show was known as Eurobollocks and…

Oct 27th 2011 By Bagehot TAKING a break from the gloom and crossness of Westminster, Bagehot headed a couple of miles south to a tough bit of Stockwell last week.…

Oct 27th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I examine the odd way that Britain is embracing direct democracy, without ever having formally rejected the representative version.…

By Bagehot AT the time of writing, government sources are predicting that David Cameron is about to suffer a „chunky“ rebellion over his refusal to grant the public a referendum…

Oct 20th 2011 By Bagehot ON OCTOBER 24th, it now seems clear that David Cameron will face one of the trickiest votes of his—to date remarkably lucky—career as Conservative Party…

By Bagehot THE tortured and tortuous question of Britain’s membership of the European Union took a new turn this afternoon, with a decision by the House of Commons Backbench Business…