Aug 30th 2011 By Bagehot THE British have long been told that theirs is a nation of homeowners (and more specifically house-owners). According to conventional wisdom, this made the country…

Aug 26th 2011 By Bagehot THE AUGUST bank holiday weekend looms, so your blogger will allow himself a spot of sunny optimism (to offset the grey rainclouds scudding across the…

Aug 25th 2011 By Bagehot THIS week’s print column looks at the first leg of the Libyan crisis, and asks what lessons can be drawn about David Cameron’s Britain, and…

Aug 23rd 2011 By Bagehot THIS IS not a comprehensive blog posting on Libya. The subject is too large, and the situation too fluid for that. Instead this is a…

Aug 23rd 2011 By Bagehot TAKING a break from pondering the crisis in Libya, your blogger was asked to join a BBC radio debate this morning about politicians on holiday,…

Aug 19th 2011 By Bagehot LISTEN carefully, and in amongst the current chorus of Jeremiads against the dreadful state of England’s youth, you can hear an interesting counter-current of real…

Aug 18th 2011 By Bagehot HERE is this week’s print edition column, expanding on some of the historical thoughts broached on this blog earlier in the week: Reuse this content…

Aug 18th 2011 By Bagehot WITH my usual efficiency, I have just learned that it is voting time for the annual Total Politics Blog Awards, covering British political blog sites.…

Aug 16th 2011 By Bagehot THERE have been some sweeping historical claims made in the wake of last week’s unrest, with commentators of left and right decrying an unprecedented collapse…

By Bagehot RETURNING to Britain at the weekend from holidays in France, Bagehot had a sobering drive from Dover up into London, past boarded-up shops and restaurants and van after…