By Bagehot IT IS Friday, so by way of light relief, I bring news of the newest Conservative member of the European Parliament, Rupert Matthews. In my five years in…
Oct 13th 2011 By Bagehot THE Independent columnist John Rentoul has earned a cult following for a regular feature on his blog: a rolling log of press headlines that fall…
Oct 13th 2011 By Bagehot IN THIS week’s print column, I look at big changes underway in the most sensitive area of immigration policy: the rules covering the right to…
Oct 10th 2011 By Bagehot WHEN a doctor starts talking like a lawyer, it is rarely good news. Today, it was the turn of doctor-turned-politician Liam Fox, Britain’s defence secretary,…
Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the unusual spectacle of British Conservative leaders urging euro-zone neighbours on to much closer integration, and warns euro-area…
Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot ONE last posting about the Conservative Party conference. Little-noticed amid all the hullaballoo about European human rights law (and whether a pet cat had really…
By Bagehot A WEEK ago the Labour leader Ed Miliband used his annual conference speech to place a big bet on the anger of the British public, telling voters that…
Oct 4th 2011 By Bagehot IT WAS the cat that saved the Conservatives from being the nasty party today. The party is on day three of its annual conference, and…
Oct 3rd 2011 By Bagehot SO WHERE, exactly, are these ideological axe-men who supposedly infest the Conservative Party? Throughout this conference season, Bagehot has heard Liberal Democrats in Birmingham and…
Sep 30th 2011 By Bagehot IT IS getting harder and harder to be a pragmatic liberal. Call it recession politics, call it a function of living in the rich west…
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