Bagehot

Our columnist offers astute commentary and analysis on British politics, policies, and societal trends


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Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching

And why that risks being more of a fetish than a strategy

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The secret to good government? Actually trying 

Effort always beats ideas in British politics

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The new front line of British politics is just lovely 

From the “left-behind” to the “well-ahead”

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What now for Britain’s right-wing parties?

The Conservatives, Reform UK and the regressive dilemma 

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A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends

England football fans abroad: soft boys playing at being hard men

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Britain’s Conservative Party faces up to its own mortality

Dulce et decorum est pro parte mori

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Why the next Westminster scandal is already here

In British politics scandals are not exposed. They are simply noticed

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Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly

UwU Conservativism, and the end of smol government 

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What separates Tony Blair’s Labour from the party today?

The approach to globalisation is the clearest dividing-line of all

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Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency 

The general election reveals the absurdities of Britain’s presidential turn

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The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice 

A punishment beating is on the cards for the Conservatives  

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Rishi Sunak’s snap election is odd and illogical—much like him

For a man who says he has a plan, the prime minister acts in an impulsive way

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The narcissism of minor differences, Labour Party edition  

On the centre-left the small divisions can be the most toxic

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Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore

He who speaks for the bore speaks for Britain 

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Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist

But it is all the more powerful as a result

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