BRITISH election campaigns are normally fastidiously choreographed affairs. They're brief and sharp: only a few weeks of formal campaigning in contrast with America’s 12 months or so. And they're divided into two components: earlier than and after the publication...
I HEREBY predict that one of many nice themes of British politics within the subsequent few years will likely be “one-nation conservatism”. The Conservatives are at the moment working a presidential-style election marketing campaign constructed round Theresa Could and...
TO BIRMINGHAM to have a look at the state of the race to turn into mayor of the West Midlands (to be selected Might 4th)—and to take the temperature of crucial swing area within the basic election on June...
THE deformation professionnelle of the British institution is its behavior of rewarding failure: mess issues up, get a promotion. The Brexit referendum offered a very dispiriting case examine of this. Stay was repeatedly out-thought and out-manoeuvred by Go away:...
DAMN her eyes! I took over as Bagehot solely the opposite day, on April Fools’ Day, having not targeted on British politics since 1993. I used to be gently easing myself into my new job—getting my parliamentary move, having...
LO, BREXIT is below method. And I've effected my very own exit: having penned my final Bagehot column I now flip to Germany and its neighbourhood as The Economist’s new bureau chief in Berlin. That outgoing column conveys some...
IT IS a measure of Labour’s sorry state today that dropping simply certainly one of two seats that it has held for many years is handled as grounds for aid within the social gathering. Within the by-elections held yesterday,...
ON TUESDAY the clerk of the Home of Commons warned that the proposed repairs to the Homes of Parliament would value much more than estimated. David Natzler’s intervention was simply the newest indication of the battles to come back....
TONY BLAIR’S speech on Brexit on the morning of February seventeenth attracted a predictable storm of derision. Right this moment the previous prime minister serves as a type of Rorschach check for no matter irks the viewer: to the...
COMPARISONS between Donald Trump’s presidential win and Britain’s vote to depart the European Union have typically been overdone. Although throughout the marketing campaign Mr Trump referred to as himself “Mr Brexit” and promised “Brexit plus, plus, plus” for America,...
ON THE morning of January twenty fourth the Supreme Court docket dominated that Britain’s authorities has to place Article 50 (the formal two-year course of by which Britain will depart the European Union) to a vote in parliament. It...
THE urgency with which Britain’s Brexiteer elite has scrambled to cosy as much as Donald Trump within the weeks constructing as much as at this time’s inauguration has been one thing to behold. Main the best way was Nigel...
