By BAGEHOT THE House of Lords, Britain’s upper house, has just voted to stall the government’s planned cuts to tax credits. According to the Institute […]
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The case for ditching the NHS
Oct 23rd 2015 By BAGEHOT If the taxpayer-funded model is not politically workable, Britain should adopt a social insurance system Reuse this content Read More
English-only votes set Britain on the path to federalisation—or break-up
Oct 22nd 2015 By BAGEHOT Reuse this content Read More
The Scottish National Party’s triumphant hesitancy
Oct 17th 2015 By BAGEHOT Reuse this content Read More
What Geoffrey Howe’s career revealed about power—and Thatcherism
Oct 11th 2015 By BAGEHOT A reminder that the Iron Lady was strongest when she compromised Reuse this content Read More
George Osborne’s plan to let boomtowns boom and failing towns fail
Oct 5th 2015 By BAGEHOT The chancellor’s conference speech contained a theory about how Britain is changing—and what the state should do about it Reuse […]
An interview with George Osborne
Sep 24th 2015 By BAGEHOT Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer talks China, globalisation, the EU and his country’s place in the world with our Bagehot […]
Reanimating Bagehot’s notebook
Sep 24th 2015 By BAGEHOT IN THE last post in this blog, dated June 28th 2012, one of my predecessors introduced his column on what […]
Thoughts on the debates
Mar 11th 2015 THIS clip of David Cameron calmly but firmly taking on a not always respectful crowd at a college in Deptford—picked up by […]