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May 3rd 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week reports on William Hague’s recent visit to south-east Asia and what it reveals about the Foreign Secretary’s vision for British…

May 1st 2012 By Bagehot TOM Watson, the Labour MP who has done more than most members of the British Parliament to uncover wrongdoing within the media companies run by…

May 1st 2012 By Bagehot CHARLOTTE Leslie, the thoughtful new Conservative MP for Bristol North West, makes an interesting suggestion in today’s Daily Telegraph. Given that improving the quality of…

By Bagehot BAGEHOT spent today in Singapore on the final leg of a trip watching the British foreign secretary at work in Asia. A future column will discuss Britain’s new…

Apr 25th 2012 By Bagehot “YOU don’t see many white people round here,” said the American lecturer, visibly startled to encounter Bagehot at the Banking Academy of Vietnam, a sprawling…

By Bagehot REPORTING from a summit some years ago, your correspondent found himself following the foreign minister of another country into a press conference. The foreign minister in question, a…

Apr 19th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week is from Bristol, one of ten English cities that on May 3rd are holding a referendum on whether to have…

By Bagehot THE BRITISH debate about shale gas extraction has made headlines today, following the publication of a government-commissioned study suggesting that the unconventional drilling technique can safely be tested…

Apr 12th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at a question that is coming to dominate British debate about Europe: is EU membership an economic advantage, or…

Apr 4th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks back at a run of grim headlines for David Cameron and his coalition government, and questions the idea that…