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 […]
Year: 2011
How Britain could leave the EU
Dec 15th 2011 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week attempts to step back from the noise and chatter in Westminster about the coalition and […]
The euro: not the Titanic, but Chernobyl
Dec 12th 2011 By Bagehot NOBODY mentioned the Titanic, at least not when I was listening from the press gallery of the House of Commons. […]
Could David Cameron have done anything other than walk away from a new EU treaty?
Dec 11th 2011 By Bagehot COULD David Cameron have done anything different at Thursday night’s EU summit, when he refused to sign Britain up to […]
The moment, behind closed doors, that David Cameron lost his EU argument last night
Dec 9th 2011 By Bagehot CLAIMS and counter-claims are flying as British officials and European diplomats squabble over who, exactly, was being unreasonable last night […]
Britain, not leaving but falling out of the EU
Dec 9th 2011 By Bagehot BRITAIN did not walk out of the EU last night. But let there be no doubt about it: we have […]
God in austerity Britain
Dec 8th 2011 By Bagehot BEFORE a fresh tidal wave of Euro-news breaks over us all, this week’s print column looks at religion (and specifically […]
Why not mourn enemy donkeys, too?
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 […]
The newest Conservative member of the European Parliament, and his fears of German invasion
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. […]