The Central-Mid-Ranges Escalator, billed because the world's longest out of doors escalator system, can ease the aching ft and legs of Hong Kong vacationers.
ASKED in Japan whether or not she intends to face down as chief of the Conservative Celebration in 2019 Theresa Might replied that, quite the opposite, she plans to guide her occasion into the following election, which, in line...
WE USE the phrase “death-trap” all too frivolously. However a death-trap is precisely what the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in West London turned when it caught hearth within the early hours of June 14th. The fireplace, thought to have began...
POLITICAL scientists are sometimes sniffy about campaigns. They assume that campaigns have at greatest a minimal influence on election outcomes and typically have none in any way. Alan Abramowitz, an American political scientist, expressed his self-discipline’s acquired knowledge close...
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....
