The Kaminski row: 2 must-read articles
The row over David Cameron’s decision to pull the Tories out of the main centre-right European grouping, the European People’s Party (EPP), and set up a new group of “extreme and rag-bag” assorted...
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If Gordon’s a “glum optimist” and Dave’s a “perky doom-monger”, can Nick be...
Here’s how The Economist’s Bagehot characterised the performances of Gordon Brown and David Cameron at their respective press conferences this week: On Gordon Brown: “… [he] was his usual funereal self...
View ArticleTop Lib Dem asks: was Ashcroft’s peerage given under false pretences?
Today’s Telegraph reports that Lib Dem peer Lord (Matthew) Oakeshott has called for all documents relating to Tory donor Lord (Michael) Ashcroft’s peerage to be made public to establish whether the...
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Was 6th October the day it started going awry for the Tories?
The opinion polls are up-and-down day-in-day-out at the moment, making it almost impossible to say with any confidence whether we are firmly in hung parliament territory, or whether the most likely...
View ArticleOf future coalitions and political alignments
Three quick links to must-read articles this past week, all with compelling arguments to make: The Cameroons already thinking the unthinkable (Bagehot, The Economist) Tory MP Nick Boles’ naively...
View ArticleThe Saturday Debate: Local government is to the Lib Dems what the unions are...
Here’s your starter for ten in our Saturday slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate… I was struck by this recent article by the Economist’s political columnist Bagehot, headlined When...
View ArticleWhy was this Lib Dem conference cheerful? Simple: because it mattered.
The Economist’s pseudonymous political commentator Bagehot devotes his column this week to the Liberal Democrats, analysing the mood of serenity which prevailed at this year’s party conference to the...
View Article“A shitty time to be a liberal”: The Economist’s must-read piece on the Clegg...
There’s a must-read column by The Economist’s Bagehot this week focusing on the Lib Dems’ dilemmas, titled The Clegg paradox. It’s a serious and weighty analysis, which asks some uncomfortable...
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The state of Britain: cause for some optimistic pessimism
David Rennie has been the pen behind the pseudonymous Bagehot column, which appears weekly in The Economist, since 2010. During that time he has been deservedly recognised as the most acute...
View ArticleThe Economist: ‘Grassroots Lib Dems are much keener on coalition than Tories’
The Economist’s political commentator ‘Bagehot’ this week surveys the attitudes of Lib Dems towards the Coalition at the mid-term point — I particularly like its opening: THE Somerset village of Chew...
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