By Bagehot THE tortured and tortuous question of Britain’s membership of the European Union took a new turn this afternoon, with a decision by the House of Commons Backbench Business …
By Bagehot THOUGH Bagehot is a hand-wringing liberal on many subjects, when it comes to dodgy public art (taxpayer funded or no) he is a raving conservative. One of the …
Oct 14th 2011 By Bagehot LIAM Fox is gone. The resignation of the British defence secretary became inevitable once newspapers started unearthing financial trails that appeared to show a group …
By Bagehot IT IS Friday, so by way of light relief, I bring news of the newest Conservative member of the European Parliament, Rupert Matthews. In my five years in …
Oct 13th 2011 By Bagehot THE Independent columnist John Rentoul has earned a cult following for a regular feature on his blog: a rolling log of press headlines that fall …
Oct 13th 2011 By Bagehot IN THIS week’s print column, I look at big changes underway in the most sensitive area of immigration policy: the rules covering the right to …
Oct 10th 2011 By Bagehot WHEN a doctor starts talking like a lawyer, it is rarely good news. Today, it was the turn of doctor-turned-politician Liam Fox, Britain’s defence secretary, …
Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the unusual spectacle of British Conservative leaders urging euro-zone neighbours on to much closer integration, and warns euro-area …
Oct 6th 2011 By Bagehot ONE last posting about the Conservative Party conference. Little-noticed amid all the hullaballoo about European human rights law (and whether a pet cat had really …
By Bagehot A WEEK ago the Labour leader Ed Miliband used his annual conference speech to place a big bet on the anger of the British public, telling voters that …
