Jun 20th 2011 By Bagehot HURRY up and die. Make no mistake, that is the sub-text of the messages being sent to Greece by British Eurosceptic politicians, under the guise…

Jun 17th 2011 By Bagehot WALKING down Piccadilly a short while ago, I realised I was looking at the Paris public transport logo on the side of a red London…

Jun 17th 2011 By Bagehot IN ADDITION to the Bagehot column, I have a brief article in the Britain section this week, looking at a cheering London trend: the emergence…

Jun 16th 2011 By Bagehot TO THE London School of Economics, to hear Ed Balls give he called his first set-piece speech on economics as shadow chancellor of the exchequer.…

Jun 10th 2011 By Bagehot THIS week’s print column attempts an assessment of George Osborne, a very political Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the help of former holders of that…

Jun 9th 2011 By Bagehot IN A country as secular as modern Britain, it is not every day that the Archbishop of Canterbury (the avuncular-looking bearded chap last seen officiating…

Jun 7th 2011 By Bagehot THERE are lots of reasons to worry about the coalition’s relaunch of its big plan to reform the National Health Service, backed today by a…

Jun 3rd 2011 By Bagehot ARE coalition governments good for reform? According to an argument advanced by centrist Conservatives since the 2010 general election, David Cameron was lucky to find…

Jun 2nd 2011 By Bagehot IN THE first in an occasional series, Bagehot would like to suggest that there are some things that Britain gets spectacularly right. One of them…

Jun 2nd 2011 By Bagehot THE BRITISH press has reacted with indignation but also much soul-searching this morning, after the Football Association (FA) of England failed wretchedly in its bid…