By Bagehot SEND for the greybeards. At the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham this week, the biggest buzz has—rather unexpectedly—been around a trio of snowy-haired party veterans, two of them …
Sep 19th 2011 By Bagehot ARRIVING at the Liberal Democrats‘ annual party conference in Birmingham on Sunday, the first thing your blogger saw as he emerged from the security tents …
Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week looks at the excitement among British Conservatives, as they prepare for what many see as the inevitable demise of the …
Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot AN EXTRAORDINARY story from the City of London, reported on the front page of this morning’s Financial Times, offers Britain an unhappy glimpse of its …
Sep 15th 2011 By Bagehot READERS of the Independent were in for a surprise this morning: a lengthy apology from that newspaper’s star columnist Johann Hari, admitting to plagiarism and …
By Bagehot THIS is not about me, it’s about you. That—riskily—has been David Cameron’s message to the Russian government here in Moscow today, setting out, in coolly rational terms, why …
Sep 8th 2011 By Bagehot FOLLOWING on from my previous blog posting, here is this week’s print column: Reuse this content Read More
By Bagehot BAGEHOT headed to the south west of England this week, to attempt something I have wanted to do for some time: report on the reaction of a single …
Sep 6th 2011 By Bagehot A SLEW of depressing reports has reached Britain in recent days from Libya, based on what appear to be letters and memos found in the …
By Bagehot KWASI Kwarteng, elected in 2010 as the Conservative MP for the safe seat of Spelthorne, is by common consent a rising star of the right. His CV bears …
