Mar 1st 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week reports on intensive efforts underway within the Conservative Party to understand Britain’s black and Asian electors better, and to learn…

Feb 27th 2012 By Bagehot IN JERSEY last week, interviewing some of the island’s two hundred or so honorary (ie, unpaid) elected police, I asked a senior officer if he…

Feb 23rd 2012 By Bagehot FOR a different perspective on the debate about elected police commissioners, Bagehot left the mainland and this week flew to the island of Jersey, a…

By Bagehot MY COLUMN in the print edition this week looks at a puzzle facing the Liberal Democrats, junior partner in David Cameron’s coalition. Among Lib Dem members of parliament…

Feb 10th 2012 By Bagehot ONE of the more depressing episodes of my week came on Tuesday, when I watched the House of Commons debate the case of Abu Qatada,…

Feb 9th 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the British debate about high pay, and suggests that the row is about more than bonuses and banks.…

Feb 7th 2012 By Bagehot A QUICK link to an interview I recorded with Andrew Marr of the BBC for The Economist late last week, about his new biography of…

Feb 3rd 2012 By Bagehot FROM a distance it must be hard to feel excitement at the news now gripping the Westminster village: the resignation of Chris Huhne as Britain’s…

Feb 2nd 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week is based on reporting visits I recently made to an inner London secondary school. I found the experience hugely encouraging.…

Jan 31st 2012 By Bagehot WELL that is helpful timing. It is bank bonus season. And there was the government, wriggling like a lugworm on a hook as the press…