So, are coalitions good for reform?
Jun 3rd 2011 By Bagehot ARE coalition governments good for reform? According to an argument advanced by centrist Conservatives since the 2010 general election, David Cameron was lucky to find…
Jun 3rd 2011 By Bagehot ARE coalition governments good for reform? According to an argument advanced by centrist Conservatives since the 2010 general election, David Cameron was lucky to find…
Jun 2nd 2011 By Bagehot IN THE first in an occasional series, Bagehot would like to suggest that there are some things that Britain gets spectacularly right. One of them…
Jun 2nd 2011 By Bagehot THE BRITISH press has reacted with indignation but also much soul-searching this morning, after the Football Association (FA) of England failed wretchedly in its bid…
By Bagehot BEFORE Barack Obama’s rise to prominence, with his address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, your blogger must admit he was not completely sure what a…
May 27th 2011 By Bagehot THE NATIVIST tendency in British politics—already cross about membership of the International Monetary Fund (because IMF membership has left Britain guaranteeing a share of the…
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…
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