By BagehotBAGEHOT is in Edinburgh. Yesterday afternoon I interviewed Alex Salmond, first minister of the devolved Scottish government and generator of a ...

By BagehotMY column in this week's newspaper is about the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Ed Miliband, and why things are looking bleak for him. Here ...

By BagehotTO his slight surprise Bagehot was recently asked to review all the new biographies of Queen Elizabeth II being published to mark 2012, her 60th ...

Perpetual gilts and other temptations

British Eurosceptics try out a new line of argument: who needs European markets anyway?

By BagehotMY PRINT column this week reports on William Hague's recent visit to south-east Asia and what it reveals about the Foreign Secretary's vision for ...

By BagehotA WHILE back, debate gripped David Cameron's inner circle, on the subject of how to persuade a sceptical British public to embrace elected city ...

How Diamond Jubilee Britain compares to the nation that celebrated the Silver Jubilee and the Golden Jubilee

English-only votes set Britain on the path to federalisation—or break-up

In his Paris Review interview, Hollinghurst recalls: “My old friend the novelist Lawrence Norfolk used to say, ‘You write marvelous descriptions, but why do ...