Britain’s feral press: a way forward?
May 26th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I have tried to come up with a practical answer to the question: is there any way to rein…
May 26th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I have tried to come up with a practical answer to the question: is there any way to rein…
May 23rd 2011 By Bagehot LUCKY Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat cabinet minister, who seems sure to be pushed out of the newspaper headlines (for a short while at least)…
May 20th 2011 By Bagehot THE ENGLISH Channel feels wide this morning. On one side, the British press jumped gleefully on a former bank chief, Sir Fred Goodwin, after a…
May 19th 2011 By Bagehot POLITICIANS have been bashing supermarkets and chain stores as long as such shops have existed. In much of the European continent, some of the loudest…
By Bagehot ALL Westminster is reading „The Social Animal“ by David Brooks, after sources close to David Cameron let it be known that the New York Times journalist had captured…
May 16th 2011 By Bagehot AS IF May was not working out badly enough for the Liberal Democrats, the weekend brought a fresh round of press allegations against the Lib…
By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week examines the strange mood of calm that surrounds Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democratic leader and deputy prime minister, after his party was given…
May 12th 2011 By Bagehot BRITAIN’S politicians are still getting used to the idea of knowing the date of the next general election. Many cannot quite believe that the next…
By Bagehot TODAY’s British press is full of the latest row about high street banks, this time involving the aggressive marketing of payment protection insurance (PPI) to millions of customers.…
May 6th 2011 By Bagehot DURING the 1960 primary campaign in West Virginia, it is claimed, John F Kennedy liked to use a joke to ward off charges of using…
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