Redaktion

By Bagehot WE USE the phrase “death-trap” all too lightly. But a death-trap is exactly what the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in West London became when it caught fire in the…

Jun 9th 2017 By BAGEHOT POLITICAL scientists are often sniffy about campaigns. They think that campaigns have at best a minimal impact on election results and sometimes have none whatsoever.…

May 11th 2017 By BAGEHOT BRITISH election campaigns are usually carefully choreographed affairs. They are short and sharp: just a few weeks of formal campaigning compared with America’s year or…

May 9th 2017 By BAGEHOT I HEREBY predict that one of the great themes of British politics in the next few years will be “one-nation conservatism”. The Conservatives are currently…

By BAGEHOT TO BIRMINGHAM to look at the state of the race to become mayor of the West Midlands (to be decided on May 4th)—and to take the temperature of…

By BAGEHOT THE deformation professionnelle of the British establishment is its habit of rewarding failure: mess things up, get a promotion. The Brexit referendum provided a particularly dispiriting case study…

Apr 21st 2017 By BAGEHOT DAMN her eyes! I took over as Bagehot only the other day, on April Fools’ Day, having not focused on British politics since 1993. I…

Apr 3rd 2017 By J.C. | BERLIN LO, BREXIT is under way. And I have effected my own exit: having penned my last Bagehot column I now turn to Germany…

By Bagehot IT IS a measure of Labour’s sorry state these days that losing just one of two seats that it has held for decades is treated as grounds for…

Feb 23rd 2017 By BAGEHOT ON TUESDAY the clerk of the House of Commons warned that the proposed repairs to the Houses of Parliament would cost even more than estimated.…