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...
FOR the previous few months Theresa Could and her ministers have allowed some ambiguities to swirl round Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. Sure, she confirmed in her convention speech in October, Brexit would take it past the...
A PATTERN is rising in political journalism. At any time when one thing will be construed as a rejection of the institution, or a win for authoritarianism, or a triumph for swaggering, braces-twanging bombast—or another shift the author doesn't...
IN A 12 months of grim defeats for internationalists in Britain and overseas, a morsel of aid. The Liberal Democrats pitched yesterday’s by-election in Richmond Park as an opportunity for voters to voice scepticism about Brexit. The gambit labored:...
“MARK my phrases. Inside a 12 months she’ll be gone. She’s stuffed.” Thus a senior Cameroon surveyed the panorama virtually precisely a 12 months—and what seems like many political ages—in the past over dinner. He was speaking of Angela...
