Jun 24th 2011 By Bagehot THIS week’s print column looks at the coalition government’s schools reforms, and wonders: why is nobody willing to talk about the private-state divide, how shamefully …
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By Bagehot TODAY’s Financial Times carries a letter from 14 Conservative MPs elected in the 2010 intake, who—the FT reports—are trying to create a new moderate school of Euroscepticism. The …
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Jun 21st 2011 By Bagehot DAVID CAMERON summoned the press to Downing Street today to hear the latest in a series of policy about-turns, this time the abandonment of a …
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Jun 20th 2011 By Bagehot HURRY up and die. Make no mistake, that is the sub-text of the messages being sent to Greece by British Eurosceptic politicians, under the guise …
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Jun 17th 2011 By Bagehot WALKING down Piccadilly a short while ago, I realised I was looking at the Paris public transport logo on the side of a red London …
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Jun 17th 2011 By Bagehot IN ADDITION to the Bagehot column, I have a brief article in the Britain section this week, looking at a cheering London trend: the emergence …
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Jun 16th 2011 By Bagehot TO THE London School of Economics, to hear Ed Balls give he called his first set-piece speech on economics as shadow chancellor of the exchequer. …
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Jun 10th 2011 By Bagehot THIS week’s print column attempts an assessment of George Osborne, a very political Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the help of former holders of that …
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Jun 9th 2011 By Bagehot IN A country as secular as modern Britain, it is not every day that the Archbishop of Canterbury (the avuncular-looking bearded chap last seen officiating …
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Jun 7th 2011 By Bagehot THERE are lots of reasons to worry about the coalition’s relaunch of its big plan to reform the National Health Service, backed today by a …
