By Bagehot THE BRITISH debate about shale gas extraction has made headlines today, following the publication of a government-commissioned study suggesting that the unconventional drilling technique can safely be tested…

Apr 12th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at a question that is coming to dominate British debate about Europe: is EU membership an economic advantage, or…

Apr 4th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks back at a run of grim headlines for David Cameron and his coalition government, and questions the idea that…

Apr 2nd 2012 By Bagehot SHORTLY before Christmas, Bagehot wrote a rather grumpy column about the Church of England, arguing that a time of national austerity and general economic soul-searching…

Apr 2nd 2012 By Bagehot ACCORDING to the Daily Telegraph‘s well-researched front-page offering this morning—“Tory MPs round on Cameron and Osborne“—the gay marriage thing made it onto the list of…

Mar 30th 2012 By Bagehot THE Tory tabloids are still seething about what they are calling the „pasty tax“, or George Osborne’s decision to end the VAT exemption on sausage…

Mar 29th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week is about the London mayoral race: Reuse this content Read More

Mar 29th 2012 By Bagehot AS A rule of thumb, once the British political establishment is charging in a single direction, it is time to lope discreetly in another direction.…

Mar 23rd 2012 By Bagehot AS GEORGE Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, endures a second morning of horrible headlines about a stealth „Granny Tax“ supposedly hidden in his…

Mar 22nd 2012 By Bagehot IN THE British debate over inequality and taxes for the very rich, one pantomime villain can be relied upon to put in an appearance: the…