By Bagehot TO his slight surprise Bagehot was recently asked to review all the new biographies of Queen Elizabeth II being published to mark 2012, her 60th year on the …
Jan 26th 2012 By Bagehot MY new column looks at today’s seemingly distinct debates about British capitalism, executive pay, welfare caps, the squeezed middle and immigration, and concludes that behind …
Jan 19th 2012 By Bagehot MY RECENT interview with Alex Salmond, the leader of Scotland’s pro-independence party and head of the Scottish government, forms the basis of this week’s print …
Jan 17th 2012 By Bagehot THE English have cause to feel flattered. David Hockney, the Yorkshire-born artist who fled his „boring, stifling“ home country aged 24 for southern California, seeking …
Jan 16th 2012 By Bagehot BANG on cue, after a week of calls for the Scottish people to be given their say on the future of the United Kingdom, come …
Jan 12th 2012 By Bagehot MY column in this week’s newspaper is about the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Ed Miliband, and why things are looking bleak for him. …
Jan 12th 2012 By Bagehot BAGEHOT is in Edinburgh. Yesterday afternoon I interviewed Alex Salmond, first minister of the devolved Scottish government and generator of a hundred headlines this week, …
Jan 9th 2012 By Bagehot PUT up or shut up. That is the risky (but arguably rather canny) message that David Cameron has sent to the pro-independence head of the …
Jan 6th 2012 By Bagehot THIS week’s print column looks at a story that filled British newspapers this week: the conviction and jailing of two white men for the 1993 …
Dec 28th 2011 By Bagehot BRITAIN’s royal family continues its remarkable run in the tabloids, in titles that once delighted in headlines about out-of-touch or gaffe-prone royals. „Good to see …
