By Bagehot A WEEK ago the Labour leader Ed Miliband used his annual conference speech to place a big bet on the anger of the […]
A mystery cat saves the Tory Party from being the nasty party
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A big scary opponent for the government
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 […]
Ed Miliband, an old-fashioned German social democrat
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 […]
British Euroscepticism enjoys a cheap night out
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 […]
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 […]
Labour flatters the coalition, but only to deceive
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 […]
The cheery gloom of the Liberal Democrats
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: […]