Nov 16th 2011 By Bagehot SNATCHING a brief break from all things European, Bagehot has been looking at youth unemployment this week (it will be the subject of my print …
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Nov 14th 2011 By Bagehot CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, from a Britain at the heart of EU decision-making. That was the new tone on Europe from David Cameron this evening, as he …
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Nov 10th 2011 By Bagehot I WAS determined to avoid writing about the Europe this week: there is a lot of it about in other sections of the paper, and …
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By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at a huge shake-up of Britain’s parliamentary map that is currently underway, and the degree to which this boundary review is causing …
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By Bagehot FOR this week’s print edition, a colleague from our economics team did some number crunching around Britain’s exposure to the troubled euro-zone periphery. His sobering finding: add up …
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Nov 3rd 2011 By Bagehot THE DARK, thunderous skies over Westminster tonight seem all too appropriate. The storm in the euro zone is reaching new heights, and here in Britain …
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Nov 1st 2011 By Bagehot BAGEHOT is overseas just now, researching a column on foreign policy. But checking the headlines from home I felt a keen pang of homesickness when …
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By Bagehot A FEW years ago, a fascinating exhibition was mounted of old British newspaper cartoons relating to the country’s ties with Europe. The show was known as Eurobollocks and …
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Oct 27th 2011 By Bagehot TAKING a break from the gloom and crossness of Westminster, Bagehot headed a couple of miles south to a tough bit of Stockwell last week. …
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Oct 27th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I examine the odd way that Britain is embracing direct democracy, without ever having formally rejected the representative version. …
