A week of crises, at home and abroad
Jul 8th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column, written before the closure of the News of the World and the arrest of its former editor, Andy Coulson, looks for lessons…
Jul 8th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column, written before the closure of the News of the World and the arrest of its former editor, Andy Coulson, looks for lessons…
Jul 8th 2011 By Bagehot TWO DAVID Camerons held a press conference this morning in Downing Street. The first was assured and compelling, and pulled off the difficult task of…
By Bagehot UPDATE: a short while after the posting of this blog entry, James Murdoch, the executive chairman of News International and head of international operations at News Corporation, announced…
Jul 4th 2011 THE British public no longer understand why there are 9,500 members of the British armed forces in Afghanistan (if they ever did). The British public hate losing…
Jul 1st 2011 By Bagehot THE Conservative work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is in the headlines for urging British businesses to hire British workers rather than immigrants. Mr…
By Bagehot FROM Bagehot’s office window, the usual view of Parliament and the London Eye is accessorised by hovering police helicopters: the tell-tale sign that demonstrators are marching on central…
Jun 24th 2011 By Bagehot THIS week’s print column looks at the coalition government’s schools reforms, and wonders: why is nobody willing to talk about the private-state divide, how shamefully…
By Bagehot TODAY’s Financial Times carries a letter from 14 Conservative MPs elected in the 2010 intake, who—the FT reports—are trying to create a new moderate school of Euroscepticism. The…
Jun 21st 2011 By Bagehot DAVID CAMERON summoned the press to Downing Street today to hear the latest in a series of policy about-turns, this time the abandonment of a…
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