Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot ONE last posting about the Conservative Party conference. Little-noticed amid all the hullaballoo about European human rights law (and whether a pet cat had really …
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By Bagehot A WEEK ago the Labour leader Ed Miliband used his annual conference speech to place a big bet on the anger of the British public, telling voters that …
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Oct 4th 2011 By Bagehot IT WAS the cat that saved the Conservatives from being the nasty party today. The party is on day three of its annual conference, and …
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Oct 3rd 2011 By Bagehot SO WHERE, exactly, are these ideological axe-men who supposedly infest the Conservative Party? Throughout this conference season, Bagehot has heard Liberal Democrats in Birmingham and …
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Sep 30th 2011 By Bagehot IT IS getting harder and harder to be a pragmatic liberal. Call it recession politics, call it a function of living in the rich west …
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By Bagehot BACK at the start of this year’s autumn conference season, about a hundred years ago or possibly last week, I arrived at a media reception for hacks at …
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Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I look at Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and suggest that his big idea for Britain is, at heart, …
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Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot WEDNESDAY is a late night at the Economist as articles enter the weekly editing process. Unusually though, last night my cycle ride home got me …
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Sep 27th 2011 By Bagehot ED MILIBAND, the man with the second-best chance of being prime minister of Britain after 2015, this afternoon declared that the country was living through …
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Sep 26th 2011 By Bagehot (A) BRITAIN is a helpless cork, bobbing about on an ocean whipped by economic storms beyond the control of any chancellor of the exchequer. (B) …
