Remembering an unconventional democrat and scholar of Walter Bagehot’s works

By Bagehot

UNUSUALLY, my column this week is an obituary. It remembers a former Economist journalist, academic and Conservative cabinet minister Norman St John-Stevas, who devoted 20 years of his life to the study of Walter Bagehot, the constitutional historian and essayist after whom this column is named. If for nothing else, read on to settle the vexed question of how that name is pronounced…

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