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Apr 2nd 2012 By Bagehot SHORTLY before Christmas, Bagehot wrote a rather grumpy column about the Church of England, arguing that a time of national austerity and general economic soul-searching…

Apr 2nd 2012 By Bagehot ACCORDING to the Daily Telegraph‘s well-researched front-page offering this morning—“Tory MPs round on Cameron and Osborne“—the gay marriage thing made it onto the list of…

Mar 30th 2012 By Bagehot THE Tory tabloids are still seething about what they are calling the „pasty tax“, or George Osborne’s decision to end the VAT exemption on sausage…

Mar 29th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week is about the London mayoral race: Reuse this content Read More

Mar 29th 2012 By Bagehot AS A rule of thumb, once the British political establishment is charging in a single direction, it is time to lope discreetly in another direction.…

Mar 23rd 2012 By Bagehot AS GEORGE Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, endures a second morning of horrible headlines about a stealth „Granny Tax“ supposedly hidden in his…

Mar 22nd 2012 By Bagehot IN THE British debate over inequality and taxes for the very rich, one pantomime villain can be relied upon to put in an appearance: the…

Mar 22nd 2012 By Bagehot HERE, a few hours earlier than usual, is my print column on the budget: Reuse this content Read More

Mar 21st 2012 By Bagehot NOBODY was quite running a book, but your blogger can report that there was keen speculation last night on the House of Commons terrace about…

Mar 20th 2012 By Bagehot IN NORTH America, politicians on the right like to talk about the salutary effects of „tax rage“, by which they mean the useful anger felt…