By BAGEHOT THE deformation professionnelle of the British establishment is its habit of rewarding failure: mess things up, get a promotion. The Brexit referendum provided a particularly dispiriting case study…
Apr 21st 2017 By BAGEHOT DAMN her eyes! I took over as Bagehot only the other day, on April Fools’ Day, having not focused on British politics since 1993. I…
Apr 3rd 2017 By J.C. | BERLIN LO, BREXIT is under way. And I have effected my own exit: having penned my last Bagehot column I now turn to Germany…
By Bagehot IT IS a measure of Labour’s sorry state these days that losing just one of two seats that it has held for decades is treated as grounds for…
Feb 23rd 2017 By BAGEHOT ON TUESDAY the clerk of the House of Commons warned that the proposed repairs to the Houses of Parliament would cost even more than estimated.…
By BAGEHOT TONY BLAIR’S speech on Brexit on the morning of February 17th attracted a predictable storm of derision. Today the former prime minister serves as a sort of Rorschach…
Jan 30th 2017 By BAGEHOT COMPARISONS between Donald Trump’s presidential win and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union have often been overdone. Though during the campaign Mr Trump called…
Jan 24th 2017 By BAGEHOT ON THE morning of January 24th the Supreme Court ruled that Britain’s government has to put Article 50 (the formal two-year process by which Britain…
By BAGEHOT THE urgency with which Britain’s Brexiteer elite has scrambled to cosy up to Donald Trump in the weeks building up to today’s inauguration has been something to behold.…
By BAGEHOT FOR the past few months Theresa May and her ministers have allowed some ambiguities to swirl around Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. Yes, she confirmed in…
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