Apr 11th 2011 By Bagehot THERE is crossness in the tight-knit world of groups campaigning for better bicycle paths in Britain, and other pro-cycling policies. Reuse this content Read More

By Bagehot APOLOGIES for a gap in blogging, your correspondent has been wading through the swamp of complexity that is the British National Health Service. It has been a big …

Apr 1st 2011 By Bagehot A CELEBRATED Punch cartoon from just before the second world war shows a military man sprinting from a government building to a taxi, crying urgently: …

Mar 31st 2011 By Bagehot IN MY print column this week, I try to distill a week of watching the Labour Party and the trade union anti-cuts movement into a …

Mar 29th 2011 By Bagehot WHEN David Cameron became prime minister, it is a fair bet he did not expect to find himself parsing articles of the 2003 Nice Treaty …

By Bagehot BLIMEY, Bagehot thought, Miliband’s early. Your blogger was in Hyde Park in central London at an anti-cuts demonstration organised by the Trades Union Congress, and the Labour leader …

By Bagehot “WE ARE all entitled.” That was the message delivered, with quivering passion, by a woman attending a “People’s Policy Forum” hosted by the Labour Party in Nottingham today. …

Mar 24th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week examines the impact of the Libyan crisis on British politics: Reuse this content Read More

Mar 24th 2011 By Bagehot IN MY grumpiest political moments, I have sometimes wondered if, deep down, those on the British left who oppose public spending cuts believe that the …

Mar 24th 2011 By Bagehot A BET on growth, concluded British newspapers this morning, as they reviewed the annual budget delivered by George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer. That …