Bagehot
Our columnist offers astute commentary and analysis on British politics, policies, and societal trends
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Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
How the idea of false consciousness conquered the governing party
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Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty
Isaiah Berlin would recognise the debate unfolding in Britain over the right to die
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Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
The strange politics of wage compression
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Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl
Why are British farmers so politically feeble?
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Britain’s Labour Party has forgotten how to be nice
Small sums can have disproportionate effects on the public realm
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The war on prices: British edition
Too often, politicians see prices as something to be fought
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Britain’s last imperialists
The core of the British state still believes it can lead by example
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How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results
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Inside the chaos machine of British politics
The Labour Party promises calm. But the world it inhabits is built for chaos
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The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politics
If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy
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Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
The European cause is hugely popular. Its proponents are strangely ineffective
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British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think
So if you’re going to increase a tax, make it a big one
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Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
And why that risks being more of a fetish than a strategy
