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 …
