By BAGEHOT | BERLIN “MARK my words. Within a year she’ll be gone. She’s stuffed.” Thus a senior Cameroon surveyed the landscape almost exactly a year—and what feels like many …
“BREXIT-plus-plus-plus” was how Donald Trump—who also called himself “Mr Brexit”—termed his pitch to voters during his successful presidential campaign. Sure enough, many Americans will soon be waking up soon to …
The Witney campaign offers the Lib Dems a road out of the wilderness
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Nicola Sturgeon’s consultation on a new Scottish independence referendum gets her out of a tight spot
Oct 13th 2016 DELEGATES and journalists arriving in Glasgow today for the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference had one big subject on their minds: the political puzzle that has been …
By BAGEHOT TODAY is Brexit day at the Conservative Party conference and Theresa May has opened proceedings with two chunky announcements about Britain’s next steps towards the exit door. First, …
Sep 24th 2016 By BAGEHOT OWEN SMITH was never the front-runner in Labour’s leadership contest. But moderates in the party hoped that he would at least begin the process of …
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Why a “True Labour” splinter party could succeed where the SDP failed
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Britain’s newly interventionist economic consensus is a question, not an answer
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