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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Dec 2nd 2016 By BAGEHOT A PATTERN is emerging in political journalism. Whenever something can be construed as a rejection of the establishment, or a win for authoritarianism, or a …
By Bagehot IN A year of grim defeats for internationalists in Britain and abroad, a morsel of relief. The Liberal Democrats pitched yesterday’s by-election in Richmond Park as a chance …
