Britain | Bagehot
Business (almost) as usual
After only two weeks, the consensus on terror already looks fragile
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EVEN after an event as shocking as the terrorist bombings in London on July 7th, never underestimate the speed with which politics returns to something resembling normality.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Business (almost) as usual”
From the July 23rd 2005 edition
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British MPs vote in favour of assisted dying
A monumental social reform is closer to being realised
The slow death of a Labour buzzword
And what that says about Britain’s place in the world
Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
At last. Britons had been wondering what those 34m people who are not men might be
Can potholes fuel populism?
A new paper looks at one explanation for the rise of Reform UK
Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
How the idea of false consciousness conquered the governing party