Oct 3rd 2011 By Bagehot SO WHERE, exactly, are these ideological axe-men who supposedly infest the Conservative Party? Throughout this conference season, Bagehot has heard Liberal Democrats in Birmingham and…

Sep 30th 2011 By Bagehot IT IS getting harder and harder to be a pragmatic liberal. Call it recession politics, call it a function of living in the rich west…

By Bagehot BACK at the start of this year’s autumn conference season, about a hundred years ago or possibly last week, I arrived at a media reception for hacks at…

Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I look at Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and suggest that his big idea for Britain is, at heart,…

Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot WEDNESDAY is a late night at the Economist as articles enter the weekly editing process. Unusually though, last night my cycle ride home got me…

Sep 27th 2011 By Bagehot ED MILIBAND, the man with the second-best chance of being prime minister of Britain after 2015, this afternoon declared that the country was living through…

Sep 26th 2011 By Bagehot (A) BRITAIN is a helpless cork, bobbing about on an ocean whipped by economic storms beyond the control of any chancellor of the exchequer. (B)…

Sep 22nd 2011 By Bagehot HERE is my print column this week, looking back at the rather odd mood at the Liberal Democrats‘ annual conference: Reuse this content Read More

Sep 21st 2011 By Bagehot THE leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, closed the party conference this afternoon with a speech that posed more questions than it answered. Reuse…

By Bagehot SEND for the greybeards. At the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham this week, the biggest buzz has—rather unexpectedly—been around a trio of snowy-haired party veterans, two of them…