By Bagehot REPORTING from a summit some years ago, your correspondent found himself following the foreign minister of another country into a press conference. The foreign minister in question, a …
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Apr 19th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week is from Bristol, one of ten English cities that on May 3rd are holding a referendum on whether to have …
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By Bagehot THE BRITISH debate about shale gas extraction has made headlines today, following the publication of a government-commissioned study suggesting that the unconventional drilling technique can safely be tested …
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Apr 12th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at a question that is coming to dominate British debate about Europe: is EU membership an economic advantage, or …
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Apr 4th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks back at a run of grim headlines for David Cameron and his coalition government, and questions the idea that …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Mar 29th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week is about the London mayoral race: Reuse this content Read More
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Wirtschaft
Pasty-gate is a proxy for Tory angst about class, but class is a proxy for the anger of the Tory right
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. …
