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Of blue suits and smelly trainers
THE most visible difference between the Conservative Party Conference and the Labour Party Conference is age-adjusted dress sense. The Conservative Party Conference is full of young people dressed like...
The Tory Party is split down the middle
By BAGEHOTTHE first thing that you notice in Birmingham is that the Conservative Party is hopelessly split on Brexit. The government is united (for now) over Chequers. Most of...
What Birmingham means to today’s Conservatives
By BAGEHOTBIRMINGHAM was an obvious place for the Tories to hold their conference. The mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, is a Conservative. Central Birmingham is a far...
John McDonnell offers an ambitious alternative economic policy
By BAGEHOTSO FAR the Labour Party’s annual conference has very much been John McDonnell’s. The shadow chancellor not only delivered today’s keynote address in the main hall. He’s been...
Americans are doing a good job of misunderstanding Britain
By BAGEHOTA RESTAURANT critic for the New York Times informs us that, on returning to London after a ten-year absence, he was astonished to discover that the local restaurants...
Labour is no longer the party of the traditional working class
By BAGEHOTON JULY 3RD Jeremy Corbyn told Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, that “Labour is back as the political voice of the working class”. This would be nice if...
Some thoughts on the crisis of liberalism—and how to fix it
By BAGEHOTBREXIT is such an all-consuming process for the British—at once a drama, a muddle and a mess—that it is easy to forget that it is part of something...
Sounding the death knell for Corbynmania
Labour’s so-so performance in the local elections raises questions about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership Source link
Amber Rudd’s resignation throws Theresa May’s government into crisis
By BAGEHOTIN THIS week’s Bagehot column I ventured that Amber Rudd, Britain’s home secretary, was probably not fatally wounded by recent events, “unless there is another scandal festering in...
Coming face to neck with Vladimir Putin
By BAGEHOTT.H. MARSHALL, one of the founders of modern economics, and one of the most brilliant analysts of the economics of place, argued that “there was something in the...
