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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
