Oct 4th 2011 By Bagehot IT WAS the cat that saved the Conservatives from being the nasty party today. The party is on day three of its annual conference, and …
Britain’s ruling party gathers under the watchful eye of the bond markets
Oct 3rd 2011 By Bagehot SO WHERE, exactly, are these ideological axe-men who supposedly infest the Conservative Party? Throughout this conference season, Bagehot has heard Liberal Democrats in Birmingham and …
Is Brussels really about to force Britain to admit benefit tourists?
Sep 30th 2011 By Bagehot IT IS getting harder and harder to be a pragmatic liberal. Call it recession politics, call it a function of living in the rich west …
By Bagehot BACK at the start of this year’s autumn conference season, about a hundred years ago or possibly last week, I arrived at a media reception for hacks at …
Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week I look at Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and suggest that his big idea for Britain is, at heart, …
Sep 29th 2011 By Bagehot WEDNESDAY is a late night at the Economist as articles enter the weekly editing process. Unusually though, last night my cycle ride home got me …
Ed Miliband blows his big chance to explain what he wants for Britain
Sep 27th 2011 By Bagehot ED MILIBAND, the man with the second-best chance of being prime minister of Britain after 2015, this afternoon declared that the country was living through …
Sep 26th 2011 By Bagehot (A) BRITAIN is a helpless cork, bobbing about on an ocean whipped by economic storms beyond the control of any chancellor of the exchequer. (B) …
Sep 22nd 2011 By Bagehot HERE is my print column this week, looking back at the rather odd mood at the Liberal Democrats‘ annual conference: Reuse this content Read More
Sep 21st 2011 By Bagehot THE leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, closed the party conference this afternoon with a speech that posed more questions than it answered. Reuse …