Sep 19th 2011 By Bagehot ARRIVING at the Liberal Democrats‘ annual party conference in Birmingham on Sunday, the first thing your blogger saw as he emerged from the security tents…

Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the excitement among British Conservatives, as they prepare for what many see as the inevitable demise of the…

Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot AN EXTRAORDINARY story from the City of London, reported on the front page of this morning’s Financial Times, offers Britain an unhappy glimpse of its…

Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot READERS of the Independent were in for a surprise this morning: a lengthy apology from that newspaper’s star columnist Johann Hari, admitting to plagiarism and…

By Bagehot THIS is not about me, it’s about you. That—riskily—has been David Cameron’s message to the Russian government here in Moscow today, setting out, in coolly rational terms, why…

Sep 8th 2011 By Bagehot FOLLOWING on from my previous blog posting, here is this week’s print column: Reuse this content Read More

By Bagehot BAGEHOT headed to the south west of England this week, to attempt something I have wanted to do for some time: report on the reaction of a single…

Sep 6th 2011 By Bagehot A SLEW of depressing reports has reached Britain in recent days from Libya, based on what appear to be letters and memos found in the…

By Bagehot KWASI Kwarteng, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for the safe seat of Spelthorne, is by common consent a rising star of the right. His CV bears…

Sep 1st 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week, I look at the striking silence of rich Britons, as billionaires (and even mere millionaires) from America to France,…